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A Pair of Massive French Silver Louis XVI Style Covered Wine Coolers, Boin-Taburet, Paris, Circa 1900

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October 19, 04:48 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

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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.