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A pair of salt cellars
Estimate
200 - 220
Session 2
23 November 2022
Hammer Price
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French silver and crystal
Tripod shaped of chiselled Greek decoration with ram's heads and architectural feet on foliage socles. The body of fruit and flower garlands, foliage and ribbons decoration
Blue oval liners
Hallmarks: Minerva 1st grade
(in very good condition, minor difference on the lower section of one liner)
Height: 5,5 cm
148 g
Category
Silver
Additional Information
This pair of salt cellars reflects the taste of 19th century elites for the style Louis XVI, and particularly for the "goût Marie-Antoinette", hence rejecting the modern styles. These pieces retake the shape of the famous "breast cup", created in 1787 by sculptor Louis-Simon BOIZOT (1743-1809) and by painter Jean-Jacques LAGRENÉE (1739-1821) for the dairy at Rambouillet, in the Classical inspired taste fashionable at the time.
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