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MARK OF PIERRE-ANTOINE FAMECHON, PARIS, 1785
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI SILVER-GILT TWO-BOTTLE CRUETS
MARK OF PIERRE-ANTOINE FAMECHON, PARIS, 1785
Oval and with beaded rims and shell ends, on four openwork reeded scroll feet, with openwork scroll and bead bottle guards, later applied with a coat-of-arms below a coronet, each with engraved bottles with later silver-gilt stoppers, marked underneath and on base of each bottle guard, the rim and edge of bottle guards each marked with the décharge of Henry Clavel and Jean-François Kalendrin, the later stoppers apparently unmarked
10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) long
27 oz. (838 gr.)
MARK OF PIERRE-ANTOINE FAMECHON, PARIS, 1785
Oval and with beaded rims and shell ends, on four openwork reeded scroll feet, with openwork scroll and bead bottle guards, later applied with a coat-of-arms below a coronet, each with engraved bottles with later silver-gilt stoppers, marked underneath and on base of each bottle guard, the rim and edge of bottle guards each marked with the décharge of Henry Clavel and Jean-François Kalendrin, the later stoppers apparently unmarked
10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) long
27 oz. (838 gr.)
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