Antique EMILE PUIFORCAT Pair of French Sterling Silver Gilted Salt Cellars 1890s

Description

PAIR  OF:
ANTIQUE  FRENCH
STERLING  SILVER  VERMEIL
SALT  CELLARS
Hallmarked: Emile Puiforcat
For sale:
Unusual 19th century French Sterling Silver Gilt (vermeil) salt cellars pair, with a deep bowl and gadrooned rim, etched strapwork decoration to the sides. Signed in the base: Puiforcat - Paris.
The renowned firm of
Puiforcat
was founded in 1820 by Émile Puiforcat who worked predominantly as a cutler with his brother Pierre-Joseph-Marie Puiforcat and their maternal cousin Jean-Baptiste Fuchs at rue Chapon in the Marais district of Paris. In 1857
Émile Puiforcat
along with Jean-Baptiste Fuchs registered the company’s hallmark, composed as a diamond shape centred by a pocket knife in profile, flanked by the initials E and P (for
Émile Puiforcat
).
City & Country:
Paris - France
Purity of Silver:
950 (Sterling) (Vermeil / Silver-gilt / gilded / gilt silver)
Mercury head hallmark, facing left, in hexagonal frame.
Year:
19th Century
Makers' Mark:
Emile Puiforcat
Gross Weight:
248.20 grams (approx.) the pair including the spoons.
Length:
71.80mm = 2.83 inches (approx.)
Width:
61.17
mm
= 2.40 inches (approx.)
Height:
30mm = 1.18 inches (approx.)
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Condition:
Excellent condition, no initials or monograms. Very small marks in the base. The vermeil is very good conditions.
Sobre 1772 - ISS - Placard
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