A French silver, Meissen porcelain and portor marble surtout de table, with a pair of ormolu-mounted tazzas

BY BOIN-TABURET, PARIS, CIRCA 1900

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A French silver, Meissen porcelain and portor marble surtout de table, with a pair of ormolu-mounted tazzas
By Boin-Taburet, Paris, Circa 1900
Comprising a 'fountain' centre-piece, a plateau and a pair of tazzas; the centrepiece surmounted by a mythological group bearing the Meissen mark to the underside; on a waisted socle flanked to each side by a fountain, on a trefoil mirrored base; the ensuite mirrored srtout of serpentine outline, flanked to each side by a courting couple emblematic of water, one bearing the Meissen mark and numbered 235 and 117, the other numbered 117, the centre-piece and plateau stamped to the underside BOINTABURET A PARIS GB; the tazzas, each surmounted by a mythological figure above a fluted urn, flanked by four dolphins, on a shape circular mirrored plateau, one tazza numbered 57279 23 I-6093=BCBQ, the other numbered 57280 23 I-6094=BCBQ to the underside, the porcelain 18th century
The plateau: 32 in. (81 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep (3)

Lot Essay

Boin-Taburet, the orfvrerie founded in Paris in 1873, was awarded a Gold Medal at the Paris exhibition of 1889 for a table centerpiece in the rococo style after a design by Juste-Aurele Meissonnier (1695-1750).

A comparable sutout by Boin-Taburet, exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, sold Bayeux, 26 March 1989, is illustrated in the 1989 Drouot Yearbook.

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