Large And Heavy Round Silver Dish By Jean-louis Outrebon - Paris, Louis XVI Period, 1784-1785

Large and heavy round dish in solid silver
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Solid silver (~958/1000)
Goldsmith Jean-Louis-Dieudonné Outrebon (received master in 1772, active until 1789)
Paris, 1784-1785
Diam. ~29.5 cm
Weight: 860 g
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Very good general condition. Scratches and small dents from use.
Superb patina. Heavy quality, with a thickness of ~4 mm. Very beautiful hollow basin.
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Hallmarks
Hallmark of the master goldsmith:
- Hallmark of Jean-Louis-Dieudonné Outrebon (crowned fleur-de-lys, two grains, JLO, a shell) [Nocq III p. 292; Dennis II, n°267-269, p.92-93].
Regulatory hallmarks in use in Paris from September 1782 to February 23, 1789:
- Charge for large silver works (a crowned A) [BP n°520]
- Hallmark of the common house in use from 07.17.1784 to 07.13.1785 (crowned letter P, vintage 84) [BP n°535]
- Discharge for gold and silver works going abroad (A ewer) [BP n°527]
Later control hallmarks, in use from 1809 to 1819
- 2nd title and average guarantee hallmarks for the departments [Arminjon, p.26]
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Son of Nicolas Outrebon, master in Paris, Jean-Louis-Dieudonné was himself received on July 15, 1772, residing at Cour Lamoignon, and guaranteed by Edme-François Balzac. On July 29, he had his punch inscribed. From 1781 to 1789, he was Cour-Neuve-du-Palais; he is not mentioned again after that [Mabille p.117].
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Works by Jean-Louis-Dieudonné Outrebon can be found in major private and public collections. For example, there is a pair of ice cream scoops dated 1785-1786 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris [Mabille, p.117]; two coffee pots (1778-1779, 1785-1786) and a teapot (1785-1786) at the MET in New York [Dennis I & II, no. 267-269] or a very beautiful covered bowl on its display stand (1773-1774) at the Musée du Louvre [Louvre 2022, no. 167 p.265 vol.2]. A superb spatula ladle chiseled with rolled-up leaf threads was included in the David-Weill sale [David-Weill, vol. 3, no. 64].

References
Arminjon: Catherine Arminjon & al., Dictionnaire des poinçons de fabricants d'ouvrages d'or et d'argent de Paris et de la Seine, 1798-1838, Cahiers de l'Inventaire 25, Paris 1991
BP: Michèle Bimbenet-Privat et Gabriel de Fontaines, La datation de l'orfèvrerie parisienne sous l'Ancien Régime, Paris-Musées 1995
David-Weill : Catalogue de vente de la collection D. David-Weill, Ader-Picard, Palais Galliéra, Paris les 4 et 5 mai 1972, vol. 3
Dennis I & II: Faith Dennis, Three Centuries of French Domestic Silver, I-II, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1960
Louvre 2022: Michèle Bimbenet-Privat, Florian Doux et Catherine Gougeon, Orfèvrerie de la Renaissance et des Temps Modernes, XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, La collection du Musée du Louvre, vol. 2, éditions Faton, Paris 2022
Mabille: Gérard Mabille, Orfèvrerie française des XVIe XVIIe XVIIIe siècles - Catalogue raisonné des collections du Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Musée Nissim de Camondo, Flammarion, Paris 1984
Nocq III: Henry Nocq, Le poinçon de Paris, Léonce Laget, Paris 1968, tome III