"Engraved Silver Cup By François-isaac Balduc, Sens, 1738-1745 "
- Large engraved cup- Cast, hammered and chiseled silver
- By François-Isaac Balduc, master goldsmith from 1723 to 1768 (?)
- Sens, 1762-1768 (Généralité de la Monnaie de Paris)
- Height: 10 cm; weight: 169g
- Very good condition
- Large and heavy bell-shaped cup resting on a pedestal decorated with an interlacing molding with ovoids. The lip is molded with fillets highlighted by a frieze of scrolls with shells and flowers. The base delimited by a double fillet, simulates a decoration on a matte background of lambrequins in bent rushes topped with a shell, alternating with fluted appliques.
- Hallmarks (under the body): warden's mark: S on a tower surmounted by a three-pointed crown, Sens, circa 1738-1745 [Helft, n°746b]; master goldsmith: FBI, a sun, for François-Isaac Balduc, received in Paris for Sens in 1724, still practicing in 1768 [Helft, n°745b].
- Ref. : Helft, Jacques : « Les poinçons des province françaises », de Nobele, 1968
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