SMALL flat-bottomed vermeil VERSEUSE, the pourer engraved wi - Lot 35

SMALL flat-bottomed vermeil VERSEUSE, the pourer engraved with coffee leaves, the side handle in black wood, the lid decorated with fillets, the seed showing a button. The body engraved with a coat of arms. Paris, 1764. Master-gilder : illegible. Height : 12,5 cm Gross weight : 369 g (Dents). Crest of Richard Seymour-Conway (February 22, 1800, London - August 25, 1870, Château de Bagatelle, Neuilly-sur-Seine), Earl of Yarmouth from 1822 to 1842, then 4th Marquess of Hertford from 1842. The count's crown on his Crest places the acquisition of this piece between 1822 and 1842. Provenance : - Wallace Collection. - Former Puiforcat Collection, n°188. Exhibition: April 12-May 13, 1926, Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Orfèvrerie Française Civile du XVIIe siècle au début du XIXe siècle, n° 406 bis.