A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI SILVER SAUCEBOATS AND STANDS
MARK OF ANTOINE BOULLIER PARIS, 1787
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI SILVER SAUCEBOATS AND STANDS MARK OF ANTOINE BOULLIER PARIS, 1787 Each oval stand on four pairs of foliage capped tapering feet, each on spreading foot, the rim engraved with band of foliage, each with a milled border, the sauceboats with a twisted wire rim, the handle capped with foliage and terminating in a rooster, engraved underneath the stand with a coat-of arms below a coronet and underneath the sauceboat with the same coat-of-arms, marked underneath stands, on sauceboat and underneath sauceboats, the stands and sauceboats each marked with the décharge of Henry Clavel and Jean-François-Kalendrin, each piece also marked with a later French tax mark 8½ in. (21.8 cm.) long 74 oz. (2,303 gr.) The arms are those of Huguet de Sémonville impaling de Rostaing, for Charles-Louis Huguet de Sémonville (1759-1839) and his wife Angélique-Aimée de Rostaing, widow of Mathieu de Montholon. de Sémonville was counselor of the Parliament of Normandy, deputy to the Etats-généraux, senator and later minister of State. (2)
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI SILVER SAUCEBOATS AND STANDS
MARK OF ANTOINE BOULLIER PARIS, 1787
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI SILVER SAUCEBOATS AND STANDS MARK OF ANTOINE BOULLIER PARIS, 1787 Each oval stand on four pairs of foliage capped tapering feet, each on spreading foot, the rim engraved with band of foliage, each with a milled border, the sauceboats with a twisted wire rim, the handle capped with foliage and terminating in a rooster, engraved underneath the stand with a coat-of arms below a coronet and underneath the sauceboat with the same coat-of-arms, marked underneath stands, on sauceboat and underneath sauceboats, the stands and sauceboats each marked with the décharge of Henry Clavel and Jean-François-Kalendrin, each piece also marked with a later French tax mark 8½ in. (21.8 cm.) long 74 oz. (2,303 gr.) The arms are those of Huguet de Sémonville impaling de Rostaing, for Charles-Louis Huguet de Sémonville (1759-1839) and his wife Angélique-Aimée de Rostaing, widow of Mathieu de Montholon. de Sémonville was counselor of the Parliament of Normandy, deputy to the Etats-généraux, senator and later minister of State. (2)
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