Deep Bowl With The Arms Of The Legois Family, Silver, Beaumont-sur-oise, 1734-1740

- Hammered, cast, chased silver bowl
- By Jean-Baptiste Micalef, master goldsmith in Beaumont-sur-Oise (France) from December 29, 1733 to August 19, 1740
- Beaumont-sur-Oise, 1733-1740
- Diameter: 25cm long; height: 4cm; Weight: 380g
- Good condition, no restoration - Provenance: azure coat of arms with three silver hunting horns placed in two and one, for the Legois family, one of whose members was Provost of the town of Chaumont-en-Vexin

- Deep round bowl with polylobed contours with five ribs decorated with pinched ribs, bordered by a wide molding of fillets. In the background are engraved the coat of arms flanked by two lions surmounted by a marquis' crown: azure with three silver hunting horns placed in two and one, for the Legois family from Vexin


- Often grouped in pairs, the bowls were intended according to the inventories, for serving fruit or salads. This bowl takes the form of the first bowls with five contours while retaining a constant of the ribbed bowls of the first third of the 18th century.

-  Hallmarks: goldsmith (under and on the molding): JBM with a clover, with two crowned remedy grains for Jean-Baptiste Micalef, goldsmith in Beaumont sur Oise from 1733 to 1740 [Nocq, T.III]; recognition: "B" recognition of Beaumont sur Oise, 1st half of the 18th century [Nocq]
- Ref.: [Nocq] Nocq,Henri : "Répertoire des maîtres-orfèvres de la juridiction deParis depuis le moyen âge jusqu'à la fin du dix-huitième siècle", 5Tomes, 1926