Rare chocolate maker and its plain silver cover, truncated conical shape with flat bottom, hinged disc cover, brown wooden side handle, the body engraved with coats of arms under crown.
Paris 1767.
Master goldsmith: Guillaume PIGERON received in 1762.
Gross weight: 321 g
Coat of arms of the PORTALIS family, the most illustrious of which was Jean-Étienne-Marie
Portalis (1746-1807), lawyer, statesman, jurisconsult, philosopher of French
law, member of the French Academy and Great Eagle of the Legion of Honour, mainly known for having been one of the 4 writers chosen by Bonaparte 1st Consul in 1802 to erect the Civil Code published in 1804.
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