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60 - VESOUL 1784
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VESOUL 1784 Exceptional silver sprinkling spoon, in perfect condition, “filet” style, the blade adorned with a raised filigree design on both the front and back and engraved at the time of its creation with a monogram of intertwined letters in the English style within a laurel shield topped by a floral crown (probably to celebrate a marriage). The re-stamped design features a ten-petaled flower at its center, followed by a row of braids framed by two scalloped rows that echo the spoon’s rim. Between the two, a design imitating openwork wickerwork—both curved and vertical—completes the ensemble. Master silversmith: Claude-François MICHEL, admitted in 1776 Weight: 131 g - length: 25.5 cm - length of the handle: 7 cm - diameter of the bowl: 8.3 cm Hallmarks: fineness: 11 deniers 12 grains, Bernier hallmark: bear’s head 84, guild letter 0, re-hallmarked with the Minerva Related work: former Jourdan-Barry collection, Poulain-Le Fur auction of June 4, 1993, lot number 130: sugar sprinkler, Vesoul 1780, by the same master silversmith. Weight: 130 g – length: 23.8 cm, reproduced on page 248 under number 128 in the book: Sugar Spoons in 18th-Century French Silverwork.
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