A French silver soup-tureen and cover

MAKER'S MARK OF PUIFORCAT, PARIS, CIRCA 1890

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A French silver soup-tureen and cover
Maker's mark of Puiforcat, Paris, circa 1890
Plain circular, of bombé form, on four scroll and foliage feet and with two foliate bracket handles, with plain liner and similar domed cover with detachable artichoke and leaf finial, marked on reverse, body, liner, cover and handles, and stamped on reverse PUIFORCAT
30 cm. (11.3/4 in.) long
3,841 gr. (123 oz.)

Lot Essay

This tureen is after the pot-à-oille by Pierre-François Goguelye, Paris, 1773, now in the Louvre Museum, Paris

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