"Carafe And Twelve Buckets, Crystal And Silver France Around 1900"
Crystal and silver decanter with twelve flat-bottomed pots. Carafe is baluster shaped in crystal with twisted gadroons and twisted silver frame with pierced decoration, chiseled with combed rococo, laurel and acanthus branches on a squared background. It rests on a pedestal highlighted with amaties moldings. This decanter is topped with a silver stopper. Twelve buckets are in silver decorated with rococo combs. Silver 950/1000, Minerva Maitre Orfèvre hallmarks: Lapeyre Henri, 49 rue Meslay Paris, 1895-1923 Stamp found on the cups. Height: 28.5 cm Max width: 11.5 cm Foot diameter: 9.3 cm Buckets: Height: 4 cm Neck diameter: 3.7 cm Weight: 245 gr Very good condition / without shocks, chips or repairs / A note: small indentations on some buckets