Live Auction 7731Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A CONTINENTAL SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER
Lot 35 THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN PRINCELY HOUSE
(LOTS 29-36)

A CONTINENTAL SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER

STAMPED C. L. MEYER, TOWN MARK A 'V' BELOW A FLEUR-DE-LYS, POSSIBLY FOR VIRTON (BELGIUM), LAST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY

Closed2 June 2009

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GBP 8,125

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A CONTINENTAL SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND COVER
STAMPED C. L. MEYER, TOWN MARK A 'V' BELOW A FLEUR-DE-LYS, POSSIBLY FOR VIRTON (BELGIUM), LAST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY
Shaped fluted oval and on rocaille feet, with two scroll and rocaille cast handles, the cover with fruiting grapevine and branch handle, pricked underneath and on cover bezel with initials, marked underneath
17 5/8 in. (45 cm.) wide over handles
71 oz. (2,204 gr.)

Specialist note

The town marks appears to be that of Virton, in the Belgian province of Luxembourg (E. Toepfer, Alte Goldschmiedkunst in Luxemburg, Luxembourg, 2004, p. 392). There is however no record of a C. L. Meyer working there. Pierre de Radzitzky has suggested Strasbourg as another possibility. Indeed an unidentified maker using the stamped name 'Meyer' is recorded as registering a mark in that city in 1773 (H. Haug, L'Orfévrerie de Strasbourg, Paris, 1978, table IV).