Sale 1055
Paris
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21 June 2011
Price realised
EUR 2,750
Estimate
DOUZE COUVERTS DE TABLE EN ARGENT DIX CUILLERES PAR CHARLES PROZELLE, PARIS, 1739; UNE CUILLERE PARIS 1782, MAITRE-ORFEVRE ILLISIBLE; UNE CUILLERE, PARIS, 1783, MAITRE-ORFEVRE ILLISIBLE; LES FOURCHETTES PAR CLAUDE BALLIN, PARIS, 1752 Modèle filet violon, gravé d'armoiries d'alliance surmontées d'une couronne de marquis, poinçons: charge, jurande (lettres Z, M, T et U), maître-orfèvre et décharge 2004 gr. (64.43 oz.) (24)
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Pour des couverts par Claude Ballin, datés 1750-1754, voir le Catalogue de l'orfèvrerie du XVIIe, du XVIIIe et du XIXe siècle, musée du Louvre et musée de Cluny, Paris, 1958, numéros 52 et 53.
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