A Set of Seven Louis Xvi Silver Cloches and Dishes

The cloches, each circular with chased flutes and acanthus calyx with bud finial, the pair of 1779 with slightly differing finial; the French dishes each shaped circular hexafoil with moulded borders, the Russian dishes plain circular with reeded border, marked underneath rims and in cloches with charge, date-letters (O and T) and maker; on rims with decharge for objects going abroad; the cloches stamped with inventory number 2 the dishes stamped on reverses with Russian inventory number 2 and prick-engraved with Cyrillic monogram EKC; the 1782 cloches pricked with No 2 and the 1779 with Cyrillic monogram EKC

Estimate:£80,000

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