Pair of silver torches, the round base with contours... Lot 36

Pair of silver torches, the round base with contours and projections, the umbilicus girdled with fillets, the triangular shaft with curved sides, shells and volutes; the borders with gadroon mouldings, the hexagonal tap; engraved with the covenantal arms of the family of ROCHE de BRIEX and La TOUR d'ARÈNES surmounted by a marquis crown. Hallmark of the Master goldsmith Antoine RIVIER, received in 1738. Pont-Saint-Esprit, circa 1740 (small accidents). Height : 25 cm - Weight : 1 184 g Bibliography : Catalogue of the exhibition Orfèvrerie civile de Montpellier et du Languedoc, Musée languedocien, Montpellier, 1996, described and reproduced, n°120.