Tm Bary - Covered Sugar Bowl - Sterling Silver Vermeil Drageoir Late 18th Century Eagle - Snake Handles

Resting on a circular pedestal decorated with a delicate frieze of palmettes on ridges, the plain throat, covered sugar bowl or bezel in solid silver vermeiled by the master goldsmith Thomas-Michel Bary, active in Paris in 1798. Its cup is plain, the edge with beaded fillets, flanked by remarkably delicate handles; Their leafy base gives rise to two snakes spreading out in appliques on each side, the console bodies joined by a pearl. Atop a lid with a very nicely squared frieze set with small dots, a majestic eagle, as if ready to take flight, sits on its terrace with stylized foliage. The upper part of the lid highlights this fretel with a corolla of long radiant gadroons. A few micro-marks of use, rare state of conservation for this little jewel adorned with naturalistic attributes highlighted by the sober unity of the bezel. Master goldsmith: Thomas-Michel Bary - Goldsmith La Grosserie, then place de la Pointe Saint-Eustache. 11, rue de la Fromagerie in Paris. (widower of Marie-Victoire Jussiaume). Thomas-Michel Bary is also listed in the Brittany heritage inventories for religious works in silver and vermeil. He inscribed his diamond punch in 1798-1799. On body and lid feet, title hallmark with 1st Rooster 1st title (950) and guaranteed for Paris 1798-1809. Master's mark on the reverse and cover. Weight and dimensions: Amplitude, from one cove to the other - Width from one cove to the other: 19.3 cm./7. 6 in. Height at the fretel - total height: 17.5 cm./6. 89 in. Diameter at the upper edge: 13.5 cm./5. 31 in. Lid Diameter: 14.5 cm./5. 71 in. Solid silver weight - Sterling silver weight: 524 gr.