
Lot Closed
October 19, 04:48 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Pair of French Massive Silver Louis XVI Style Covered Wine Coolers, Boin-Taburet, Paris, Circa 1900
Of exceptional weight, the paneled urn-form bodies applied with buds in flutes between screw-on laurel swags spreading from boldly modelled cornucopia and ram’s head handles, attached by bolts and nuts, square bases with cut corners applied with laurel swags between paterae, fluted domed covers with bud finials rising from spreading acanthus, detachable silver liners, fully marked with maker’s mark, export guarantee, and stamped Boin Taburet a Paris
604 oz 10 dwt
18799 g
Height 18½in.
47 cm
This model of covered wine cooler, on a slightly different base, appears in an advertisement for Boin-Taburet’s wares in Town and Country magazine, April 15 1911.
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