Lot 541
An Exceptionally Fine and Heavy French Empire First Standard Silver Sugar Bowl With Twelve Spoons, c. 1809, composed of a swag-molded crystal bowl, artfully mounted with anthemion handles over an inverted-volute pedestal, on an acanthus-bordered square base with lion's-paw feet; the chassis stamped twice with radiant female and bearded-male heads in cartouches, and with engraved deer-head maker's mark; the foliate-handled cover similarly stamped, the rim hung with twelve associated silver fiddle-and-thread coffee spoons stamped "C. Hutteau" with coronet and radiant-female head, and all but one bearing engraved initials P.P.B. on reverse (the spoons made probably after 1835), overall height 12.25in., width 8 in., depth 7 in., in mint condition apart from nearly invisible crack to bowl.
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