408

A cruet set


Estimate

700 - 800


Session 2

16 November 2021



Description

French silver
Beaded borders with garlands and scrolls decoration, the two holders with ribbed supports, fruits, floral garlands and ribbons flanking oval cartouches. On 4 foliage feet. Two blue and colourless glass cruets of chiselled silver stoppers
Paris ca. 1781-1782, marked A.J. MASSÉ and discharge mark for Paris, 1781. Discharge mark only to stoppers
(restoration to one cruet handle, mounts in very good condition)

30,0 x 15,0 x 8,0 cm
1450 g


Category

Silver


Additional Information

Ange-Jacques MASSÉ, Paris goldsmith approved as master in 1780

The Louvre Museum, in Paris, keeps in its collection a piece by A.J. MASSÉ
("Ensemble de deux pots à oille et de quatre légumiers aux armes de la famille Chrestien de Tréveneuc" – 1784-1785, solid silver, inv. OA 10240, OA 10241, OA 10242)



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