Silver covered bowl, the triangular ears with... Lot 39

Silver covered bowl, the triangular ears with contours, decorated with a medallion with a profile of a man in the antique style; the lid with doucine and gadroon mouldings, with appliques of lambrequins alternating with lanceolate leaves on a bitter background, delimited by a threaded rush, the knob handle chiselled with a profile of a woman in the antique style Hallmark of the Master goldsmith Claude VAISSIÈRE, received in 1720 in Narbonne for Béziers. Béziers, 1731-1737 (accidents). The lid without hallmark. Height : 11,8 cm - Diameter : 17,5 cm - Weight : 779 g Provenance : Former collection LÉVY, sale Ader-Picard-Tajan, Paris, June 7, 1983, lot 162. Bibliography : Catalogue of the exhibition Orfèvrerie civile de Montpellier et du Languedoc, Musée languedocien, Montpellier, 1996, described and reproduced, n°103. An identical bowl, (probably ours) by Claude VAISSIÈRE, of the same date, is described and reproduced in the work of Jean THUILE L'orfèvrerie du Languedoc, généralités de Montpellier et de Toulouse, volume III, fig. 111,112, pl. XLVI.