Pair Of Silver Dishes, Paris, 1713-1717

- Hammered, chased and melted silver
- Paris, 1713-1717
- Diameter : 13.7cm ; height : 1.9 cm
- Weight : 262g (129g & 133g)
- No goldsmith's hallmark
- Very good condition, 19th century coat of arms

- Pair of small round dishes sedged with a filleted molding adorned with thirty-two pinched ribs. The center is adorned with a marquis's coat of arms for the Blandin family

- This pair of small dishes like this is typical of the tableware dedicated to "fruit service", described as such in the inventories of the french Crown [Guiffrey] or represented in the plate "Table mise pour le dessert sur laquelle sont présentés des fruits en pyramide "by François Massialot, published in 1715, which features a large number of these around a symmetrical composition of pyramid-shaped bowls. Few Parisian bowls of this type have survived.

- Hallmarks (on the molding): charge countermark: rooster facing left, Paris, second half of 1713 to October 1, 1717 [BP, no. 318]; discharge: crowned fleur-de-lys,discharge of uncharged works, Paris, October 1, 1717 to February 15, 1722 [BP, n°331 & FD T.II n°362d (mark more butterfly, countermark for all works, Paris from February 15, 1722 to December 1, 1726 [BP, n°347 & FDT.II, n°358g]

- Ref: [BP] Bimbenet-Privat & de Fontaine: "La datation de l'orfèvrerie parisienne sous l'ancien régime", Paris Musée, 1995; [FD] Dennis, Faith: "The French domestic silver", Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1960; [Guiffrey, Jules], Guiffrey, Jules: "Inventaire de la Couronne", 1885

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