A Louis Xv Silver Cruet Frame

Oval-shaped, with scroll ends forming feet and on the sides with a large shell, the gallery formed as stylized waves enclosing two bottle rings formed as olive branches, the centre applied with two fully modeled dolphins, applied at each end with the coat-of-arms of Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1773-1850), the future King Louis-Philippe I of the French, marked on underside five times with charge, maker and date-letter (V); on foot-rim and on the rings: decharge; later French control mark

Estimate:£30,000

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