Two French Silver Sugar Bowls and Covers With Associated Stands, Paris, 1770-1783

the first spirally fluted, bowl engraved with arms, with leafy branch handles and strawberry cluster finial, the stand on four openwork scroll supports headed by shells, engraved with different arms, bowl Jean-Joseph Baudet, Paris, 1777, stand Alexandre du Roussy, Paris, 1783; the second of inverted pear form chased with swags, celery stalk handles, strawberry cluster finial, the stand shaped circular engraved with arms and on openwork scroll supports, the cover by Vincent Breant, Paris, 1770, bowl probably by the same, marks not clear, also stamped with later Minerva head, stand by Alexandre du Roussy, Paris, 1777

Louis XVI sugar bowl and associated stand good condition; Louis XV sugar bowl with foot pushed in but not through, as noted re obscured marks on base of body
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A Louis XVI sugar bowl and stand of this model by de Roussy, 1777, are in the Wentworth collection at the Metropolitan Museum, see Dennis no. 305, p. 206.