Live Auction 7731Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
AN ITALIAN SILVER SOUP-TUREEN AND COVER
Lot 103

AN ITALIAN SILVER SOUP-TUREEN AND COVER

MARK OF VINCENZO COACI, ROME, CIRCA 1780

Closed2 June 2009

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AN ITALIAN SILVER SOUP-TUREEN AND COVER
MARK OF VINCENZO COACI, ROME, CIRCA 1780
Circular, chased with stiff leaves, with vitruvian scroll rim, the cover with finial cast as putto, later engraved with initials, marked underneath, on cover bezel, inside cover and on top of cover, with a later silver-plated liner
13¾ in. (35 cm.) high
79 oz. (2,459 gr.)

Specialist note

In addition to the maker's mark VIN/COACI/ROM, as illustrated in C. Bulgari, Argentieri Gemmari E Orafi D'Italia, Rome, 1958, p. 299, no. 386, the tureen is also struck with the mark V.C. over M in trefoil, as illustrated op. cit, no. 1180.