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Description
VESOUL 1784
An exceptional silver dusting spoon, in perfect condition, ‘filet’ style, the spatula enhanced by a raised band
in the filet style 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-wreathed shield surmounted by a floral crown (probably to celebrate a marriage).
The re-punched design features, at its centre, a ten-petalled flower, followed by a row of braids framed by two scalloped rows echoing the border of the spoon bowl. 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’s mark: bear’s head 84, guild letter 0, re-hallmarked with the Minerva
Related item: former Jourdan-Barry collection, Poulain-Le Fur auction of 4 June 1993, lot number 130: dusting spoon, 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 Silversmithing.
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