MARK OF CHARLES-LOUIS-AUGUSTE SPRIMAN, PARIS, 1780 AND 1784

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TWO MATCHING LOUIS XVI SILVER VEGETABLE DISHES AND COVERS
MARK OF CHARLES-LOUIS-AUGUSTE SPRIMAN, PARIS, 1780 AND 1784
Each plain circular on flat base, the handles cast and chased as entwined laurel branches, the domed cover with ribbon-tied reeded border, each later engraved with a different coat-of-arms, marked underneath body and in cover: charge, date-letter (R and date) and maker; on one foot-rim, on upper rim and on covers: decharge
9 in. (23 cm.) wide over handles
51 oz. 10 dwt. (1,602 gr.)

Provenance

with J. L. Bonnefoy, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.

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Lot Essay

Charles-Louis-,Auguste Spriman (also recorded as Sprimant or Spriment) was born in Mons in 1737 where he became a master in 1762. However he established himself in Paris as a goldsmith in 1775, when he produced one of his earliest recorded piece, an impressive tureen with dog finial and ram's head handles, now in the Louvre Museum, Paris, OAR 426. By 1777-1778, he was working with Robert-Joseph Auguste, another native of Mons, on the Ekaterinoslav Service commissioned by Empress Catherine the Great.
His surviving work show that he may have specialised in tureens and an identical pair of vegetable dishes and covers dated 1778 is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (48.187.262a, b; Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948).

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