A Set of Four Louis Xv Silver Basket-Shaped Salt-Cellars

Each of trefoil form, on scroll and rocaille feet leading to scallop shells, the sides chased with flutes, with arching ribbon-tied-reed handles and ribbon finial, marked three times on underside with charge, date letter (Y) and maker, some marks now illegible; on foot-rim with decharge ; together with twelve assorted silver spoons, each engraved with accollé coats-of-arms, eight marked on stem with mark of Pierre-Nicolas Somme, Paris, 1772, four with mark of Claude-Auguste Aubry, Paris, 1766

Estimate:£10,000

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