Early nineteenth century sweetmeat basket in Creusot cut-crystal and silver mount by Charles Louis DUPRE

Elegant sweetmeat basket in Creusot cut-crystal chiseled with pattern leaves evoking a laurel wreath and silver mount. The S-shaped handles, partially fluted and finely chiseled with foliage and cornucopias with fruit. A shaped plug pinecone decorated, at the bottom, with circumscribed palmettes, crowns the removable lid. The sweetmeat basket rests on a square base adorned with leaves and interlacing and for claw feet highlighted with foliage. Executed by Charles Louis DUPRE, master silversmith in 1827. Marked Ceres-Vieillard (1818-1838).


Circa :1830
Dim: W: 9,4 in - D: 6,3in - H: 11,4in.
Dim: L:24cm, P:16cm, H:29cm.