Ennemond Ruynat (1715-1778). Small Silver Jug

Length: 19.5 cm Gross weight: 508 gr. Grenoble 1719-1720 The plain body, it rests on three arched legs with oval attachment, the lid with thumb rest and turned button, the movable beak cover, the straight turned wooden handle. Hallmarks: from the master: the letters E and R, crowned, separated by a point, surmounting an acanthus leaf; of the community of Grenoble with the date letter L, employed from 1760 to February 3, 1763; charge and discharge in use from October 2, 1756 to October 27, 1762. Ennemond Ruynat was baptized in Grenoble on February 16, 1715. Son of Salomon Ruynat and Justine Roche, from an important family of Grenoble goldsmiths, brother of Joseph a goldsmith too. Apprenticeship with his father from 1723. Associated with his mother upon the death of his father in 1741. Received master in 1744. He resigned in 1778 in favor of Joseph-François Bernard