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Rocaille-style silver sugar spoon, engraved with a coat of a…
See original version (French)
294
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Rocaille-style silver sugar spoon, engraved with a coat of a…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
Rocaille-style silver sugar spoon, engraved with a coat of arms surmounted by a helmet.
Paris 1798–1809
Silversmith: Louis Claude ROUSSEAU, hallmarked in 1803
Weight: 92 g Length: 19.5 cm
Note: Sugar spoon made by taking a plain spoon with its hallmarks and ‘embellished’ by a craftsman with chiselled ornamentation (mass-produced around 1880)
An almost identical specimen is held at the Louvre Museum, dated as ‘genuine’ (1769–1770).
Ref. Jacques Helft, ‘Nouveaux poinçons’, p. 259, where an almost identical spoon is reproduced
See original version (French)
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