Silver "hunting" cup, gondola shape, the... - Lot 36 - Jean-Marc Delvaux

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Silver "hunting" cup, gondola shape, the... - Lot 36 - Jean-Marc Delvaux
Silver "hunting" cup, gondola shape, the cut edge, chased with a shell and threaded scrolls, centered on each side of a gadrooned pattern. Engraved under the edge, I.S. MARCHAND. M.G. Marked by Master goldsmith Pierre 1er CHESNEAU, received in 1711. Angers, 1740-1742. Length : 10,5 cm - Weight : 65 g. (small shocks and restoration under the edge) Provenance : former collection Hector Petin. Bibliography : - Faith Dennis, catalog of the exhibition "Three Centuries of French Domestic Silver", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1960, vol I, p.259, n° 397, reproduced and described. - Catalogue of the exhibition of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs "Orfèvrerie française civile de province du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle" Paris, 1936, n° 58, described, not reproduced. For a similar model by Pierre Ier Chesneau, Angers, 1730-1731, see the Fraysse sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 March 2010, lot 57.
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