A Pair of Louis Xv Silver Wine-Coolers

Each vase-form on shaped-circular spreading base with reed-and-tie border, the baluster body chased on the lower part with basketweave beneath rococo flutes, the handles formed as a cast spaniel’s head emerging from two accollé rocaille scrolls and applied underneath with bulrushes rising from a shell, the flaring serpentine neck with panels of trelliswork and reed-and-tie border above applied on each side with a coat-of-arms with coronet above, marked on undersides with charge, date-letter (D) and maker; on foot-rims; decharge (1744-1750)

Estimate:$1,076,448

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