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An Italian silver salt cellar, Naples, 1695, maker’s mark LV

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

as a fountain-shaped, resting on three putti-shaped feet, with two trays made as shells, one decorated with birds, the stem with open work foliages, with a putto shaped finial, marks: dated town twice and trace of maker’s mark


Height. 21 cm (8 ¼ in); gross weight. 324 gr. (10.41 oz.)

Sotheby’s Paris, 8 November 2012, lot 259;

Wannenes Genoa, 18 November 2013, lot 177.

For a similar salt cellar with various motives, see Tre secoli di argenti napolitani, p. 49, tav. 7