Pair Of Round 18th Century Silver Dishes - Lausanne, Associated Goldsmiths Papus & Dautun, Circa 1770

Pair of round solid silver platters
Title XI deniers (~916/1000)
Parisian model with five contours molded with fillets
Associated silversmiths Elie Papus (1713-1793) & Pierre-Henri Dautun (1729-1803)
Lausanne, circa 1770
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Ø ~29 cm
Weight 1550 g [776 + 774]
Very good overall condition
Micro-dents and scratches from use
Both stamped on the reverse with an owner's mark (SY)
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Both platters are very well hallmarked, in the Lausanne style (double maker's mark, the hallmarks applied in a cross):
• Lausanne hallmark (gules shield with a silver chief) [Hörack 2007, no. 295 p. 248]
• Hallmark of Master silversmith (EP on D), first hallmark of Papus & Dautun [Hörack 2007, no. 038 p. 248]
• Fineness hallmark (XI on D, fleur-de-lis) [Hörack 2007, no. 443 p. 248]
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Pierre-Henri Dautun (1729-1803), a member of a family of refugee silversmiths from Languedoc, practiced his profession in Lausanne, where he joined forces around 1760 with Elie Papus (1713-1793), a refugee silversmith from Périgord [Hörack 2007, p. 42].The two silversmiths worked together from 1762 (at least) until Papus's death in 1793, under the name Papus & Dautun. Two production phases are clearly distinguished: the first, from around 1760 to 1780, was struck with the EPD hallmark (our hallmark); the second, from around 1780 to 1793, was struck with the PD hallmark with a five-pointed star.
Their workshop was the largest and most productive in Lausanne in the 18th century. As the Vaud region was still part of the canton of Bern (which also included part of the present-day canton of Aargau until 1798), the French-speaking Huguenot refugees settled in Lausanne had access to a wealthy clientele made up of the most prominent Bernese families [Hörack 2007, p. 12].
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Literature
• Christian Hörack, L'argenterie lausannoise des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, Musée historique de Lausanne, 2007