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three glass bottles and a wooden box with a red lidan image of a small wooden box with two drawersan antique wooden box with brass trims and a wooden basea small wooden box with glasses inside of ittwo bottles of perfume sitting next to each other on a tablebottles and glasses are lined up on a table next to a wooden boxa plaque on the wall of a building that says harrya close up view of a wooden chest of drawers
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368 - Pierre-Dominique MAIRE (c. 1763–1827)
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Estimate €400 - €600
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Description
Pierre-Dominique MAIRE (c. 1763–1827) A liqueur set comprising four flasks with vermeil mountings and six goblets, the whole decorated with diamond-point motifs. Presented in a box with burl veneer. Brass mouldings and corner reinforcements. Side handles recessed and concealed within a brass plate. The lid is adorned with a cipher within a coat of arms. The interior is lined with dark burgundy morocco leather, embossed with a frieze of foliage. Vermeil bottle mounts decorated with a frieze of palmettes and a frieze of pearls. The goblets are housed in a removable cruciform display stand above the bottles. The compartments for the bottles and goblets are numbered. The inside of the lid bears a label reading ‘MAIRE, 154 Rue Saint-Honoré, opposite the Oratoire, Manufacturer of toiletries for the King, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Angoulême and the Princes in Paris’. Functional auberon lock. With key. Hallmark: Bundle of lictors’ axes (1809–1819). First third of the 19th century. Gross weight of weighable items: 2825.31 g. (Two stoppers to be reattached, chipping on the neck of a flask, slight chipping at the base of the goblets, a brass moulding is missing and there are a few areas where the finish has come away) NB: Pierre Dominique MAIRE (c. 1763–1827), known as a ‘silversmith and maker of travel sets’, was, for this type of object, the direct rival of Martin Guillaume Biennais, Napoleon’s silversmith. Maire worked with the silversmith Beaufort and the ‘silversmith-upfitter’ Blaquière.
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About the sale CATALOGUE SALE: BEAUTIFUL FURNITURE, PAINTINGS & WORKS OF ART
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Auction time 10/25/2026 at 2:00 PM
Ref. : 5946 - 85
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