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Six Knives, Mennecy Or Saint Cloud, 1726-1732

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"Six Knives, Mennecy Or Saint Cloud, 1726-1732"

Six knives in soft porcelain of Saint-Cloud or Mennecy

Soft porcelain, steel blade, Silver,

Paris, discharge for the small works (Mass of Chancellor) - 1726-1732

Dim: 26. cm

Very good condition, some defects on one of the knives

Rare series of six table knives with soft porcelain handles of Saint Cloud or Mennecy, with steel blades (cutler marks identical to each blade), and mounted with punched silver fittings (Paris discharge, 1726-1732). The polychrome decoration is typical of porcelain decorations of soft porcelains of Saint-Cloud, Mennecy or the different the Parisian factories of the rue l'Evèque, Pavie ...

Ref: "Tender porcelain of Saint-Cloud", Museum of the filberts ; p. 65; 102; "The dating of the Parisian goldsmith's trade under the old regime", Bimbenet-Privat & Fontaine, 1995 (n ° 359)