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Lot 201 Dα

Eight silver gilt Empire serving platters

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 40.000 € - 50.000 €
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Eight silver gilt Empire serving platters

Moulded dishes of square section with chamfered angles on four claw feet. The broad flaring rims decorated with a frieze of finely engraved tripods and pairs of swans amid stylised acanthus foliage and a band of palmettes around the edges. Five of the platters engraved with the inventory number “1” on the underside, three with “2”. H 7; W 23.7 cm, total weight 5,850 g.
Paris, marks of Abel-Etienne Giroux, circa 1809.

Literature

Cf. a bouillon by Giroux in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, illustrated in Frégnac, Les Grand Orfèvres de Louis XIII à Charles X, Lausanne 1965, p. 312.