Description
RENNES 1735–1736
A pair of silver candlesticks, embossed and cast with gadroons, ovals and latticework motifs, engraved on the cup with the combined coat of arms surmounted by a marquis’s crown: Jacques Vincent LE BORGNE de KERMORVAN (1700–1750) and Marie-Thérèse de la MARCHE (1706–1779), married on 23 September 1732.
Master goldsmith: Jean-Baptiste I BUCHET, admitted in 1724
Hallmarks: clearly hallmarked on the reverse, within the cup, with the hallmark extended around the rim.
Weight: 1070 g – height: 24.2 cm – base: 13.2 cm
A similar piece, housed at the Musée de Bretagne in Rennes and dated 1748–1749 by the same silversmith, is featured on page 380 of the book: ‘Les Orfèvres de Haute Bretagne’.
I would like to thank Bastien LANCELOT, my colleague at the CNES, who identified the coat of arms.
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