Marseille, Sugar Pot, Sugar Bowl, Silver, Coat Of Arms, 1773

Beautiful baluster-shaped silver sugar pot resting on four feet of stylized acanthus foliage. The baluster body is chiseled with garlands of flowers and florets delimiting a cartouche of coats of arms under a knight's helmet on one side and a flower vase on the other side. The two handles are formed by branches. The lid, with contours and ogee, is chiseled with the same decoration as the body, the handle is formed of three round-shaped strawberries chiseled in the natural and surrounded by embossed strawberry leaves. Marseille, 1773. Master silversmith Mathieu Bremond received in 1752. Weight 413 g - Height 13 cm Condition, good, traces of use, one leaf is missing from the handle, it was formerly repolished. The inside of the lid is nicely engraved with a rosette of strawberry leaves.