Antique Clocks, Watches and Barometers.

RICHARD REDDING ANTIQUES

A fine Empire silver ewer and basin by Marc Jacquart, the ewer of oviform body engmved with stiff leaves and a laurel band and bearing a coat of arms, the curved handle with applied winged dolphin head the cover surmounted by a seated swan, supported on a trumpet-shaped foot. The circular ewer with chased beaded band, bearing a coat of arms and inner laurel band
Paris, date cinra 1805
The ewer: height 37 cm. The basin: height 8 cm, diameter 30 cm. The Parisian silversmith, Marc Jacquart specialized in elegant large-scale domestic silver for the tahle. He made his first mark in 1798 and another in 1809 and was based at rue du Petit-Pont and then by 1806 at rue Saint-Honore Hôtel d'Aligre.

RICHARD REDDING ANTIQUES

Dorfstrasse 30
8322 Gündisau, Switzerland,

tel +41 44 212 00 14
mobile + 41 79 333 40 19
fax +41 44 212 14 10

redding@reddingantiques.ch

Exhibitor at TEFAF, Maastricht
Member of the Swiss Antique Association
Founding Member of the Horological Foundation

Art Research:
Alice Munro Faure, B.Ed. (Cantab),
Kent/GB, alice@munro-faure.co.uk

CONTACT

Back to Gallery