DOUAI VERS 1740 Silver olive spoon, uniplat violoné model, spoon rimmed, engraved with the arms of alliance Buisseret de Thiennes and Cardon de Rollancourt, surmounted by a comtale crown. The reperce is a checkerboard of rosettes, scrolls surmounted by a fleur-de-lys. Master goldsmith : Charles-Louis GERARD, received in 1716 Weight : 121,3 g - length : 31,1 cm Condition : repolished Bibliography : Reproduced in Jacques HELFT's work Le poinçon des provinces françaises, plate LXXXVIII. Quoted in Nicole CARTIER's book Les orfèvres de Douai but not reproduced under number 52 page 250. Provenance: Former sale Paris Drouot 16 May 1930, sale SAMARY n°44, photographed on the first cover. DOUAI CIRCA 1740 A silver olive spoon Master silversmith: Charles-Louis GERARD

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