A pair of French silver soup tureens, covers and stands, Joseph-Pierre-Jacques Duguay, Paris, 1772-1773

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July 5, 02:27 PM GMT

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

A pair of French silver soup tureens, covers and stands

Joseph-Pierre-Jacques Duguay, Paris, 1772-1773

Oval form, resting on four scroll feet with foliate brackets, the sides applied with oak leaf and acorn swags below fluted bands, with two goat mask handles and ribbon-tied reeded borders, the covers with fluting and pine cone finials, the cover rims engraved 'J. B^TECHERET A PARIS', with oval stands engraved in the centre with a coat-of-arms below a coronet, the covers engraved inside with the same coat-of-arms, for Count Franciszek Ksawery Branicki (François-Xavier) (1730-1819).

the stands 50cm., 19 3/4in. long

weight 15,260gr., 490.5oz.

Count Franciszek Ksawery Petrovich Branicki (1730-1819)
Presumably sold by the Soviet Government circa 1930
Internationale Antiquiteitenhandel, Amsterdam, 1936
Bensimon, Paris, 1973
Gismondi, Paris
Collection Djahanguir Riahi, Christie’s, London, 6 December 2012, lot 35
Private collection

1936 Rijksmuseum International Dealers Exhibition

J. Helft, Les Grands Orfèvres de Louis XIII à Charles X, Paris, 1965, pp. 216-217 (catalogued as by Cheret).
D. Langeois, et al., Quelques chefs d'oeuvres de la Collection Djahanguir Riahi, Milan, 1999, pp. 271-275.