A Pair of Louis Xvi Silver Wine-Coolers

Each of ovoid shape, on spreading reeded foot, the plain body chased on the lower part with palm leaves on matted ground and applied on the upper part with a garland of fruiting vines, the side handles shaped as ram's heads, the upper rim chased with laurel leaves, engraved underneath with a coat-of-arms beneath a coronet, marked on the underside with charge, date-letter (q) and maker; on the underside of foot-rim with charge, date-letter (R) and maker; on the outside of the foot-rims: decharge

Estimate:£70,000

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