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A pair of salt cellars


Estimate

500 - 800


Session 1

16 November 2021



Description

French silver
Boat shaped of fully pierced body, decorated with low relief chiselled classical mask framed by drapes and ribbons and resting on a cylindrical column supported by four feet on a laurel banded stand. Blue glass liner
Paris 1798-1809, maker's mark L. RENOU and "1er coq 1er titre", "Moyenne garantie Paris"

10,5 x 5,5 x 9,0 cm
217 g


Category

Silver


Additional Information

Exceptional work from both technical and aesthetic perspective, this salt cellars retake iconographical codes from the Greek Antiquity, reinterpreting them in the late 18th century Consulate period.
Superb conservation, minor faults to base



Closed Auction