Gros & Delettrez
323
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Rocaille-style silver sugar spoon.
See original version (French)
323
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Rocaille-style silver sugar spoon.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
Rocaille-style silver sugar spoon.
Avignon, 1750/1792
Master silversmith: Ange-René ROUVIERE, admitted to the guild in 1750
Weight: 87 g Length: 20 cm
Note: Sugar spoon made by taking a plain spoon with its hallmarks and ‘embellished’ by the ornament fitter with chiselled decorations (mass-produced around 1880).
Ref. Jacques Helft, ‘Nouveaux poinçons’, p. 259, where almost identical features can be found
See original version (French)
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