Oval silver oil-bottle and two stoppers, the edge with contours and mouldings of nets, posing on four feet with scrolls, the handles moved, the holders flacons and the holders corks with pilasters openwork of flat nets with volutes, engraved on the reverse side R. G. Mark of the Master goldsmith Jacques-Antoine TROCHE, son. Master goldsmith of the castle of Oléron, apprentice in 1771. Ile d'Oléron, circa 1780. The stoppers without original hallmark, 19th century. Length: 29,5 cm - Width: 19 cm Gross weight: 776 g Missing glass bottles. Provenance: Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1977, lot 125.

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