A Pair of Louis Xv Silver Wine-Coolers

Each of octagonal section on stepped base cast and chased with palm leaves, the body with panels of trelliswork centred with a quatrefoil over a band of Vitruvian scrolls under a border of basketweave, the angles applied with bulrush-flanked pilasters decorated with husk drops in the centre, each terminating at the top with a shell, the upper rim guilloche, the side handles formed from two reeded scrolls emerging from a webbed scalework terminal, applied with two coats-of-arms in rocaille cartouches with Royal crown above and initials G.R., marked underneath with charge and date-letter (L) and trace of maker's mark; on foot-rim with decharge des moyens ouvrages, later marked with French control mark (bigorne)

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