"Dish, Round, Silver, Coat Of Arms, Lille, 1751"
Round silver dish with molded edge of fillets by master goldsmith Claude François Ricourt, Lille 1751-1752. Claude François Ricourt was made a master goldsmith on June 11, 1731. The dish is marked with his large hallmark. Weight 715g. Diameter 27.7 cm. Condition, good, traces and scratches of use, the marly is engraved with a young girl's coat of arms under a Count's crown. Round models are rarer than contoured thread models. Nicole Cartier, The goldsmiths of Lille, Heritage notebook 82, Peeters edition.