A Louis Xiv Silver Cruet Frame

Oval, on four scroll feet, the plain bombé body applied on the shoulder with a band of gadroons repeated on the upper rim, and at each end with a Ceres mask, the detachable support with reeded border and chased in centre with a festoon, the later glass bottles with caps chased with gadroons and bud finial, engraved in centre with accollé coats-of-arms, marked underneath with charge, date-letter (L) and maker; inside with maker twice and control decharge (crowned E with two pellets); outside and on back of the four feet with maker; on detachable support: maker, verification (fly) and countermark for low standard (ciborium); on bottle caps: maker, verification (fly) and countermark for low standard (ciborium); painted in black inside bottle caps with David-Weill inventory number 'DW 50⁄56'

Estimate:£2,000

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