VALENCIENNES VERSES 1720 - 1730 Large silver chocolate pot with four panels, hinged lid, hood and feet for part. Each panel is decorated in the lower part with flowered crosses alternating with amatized backgrounds surrounding a central rosette for two, and a reserve of flowers on an amatized background for the other two. Halfway up the body, a row of gadroons on the edge of the lid and at the ends of the handle attachment delimit a decoration of interlacing flowers on an amati background. The terrace of the lid is surmounted by a spinning top riveted on pivoting gadroons. The axis of the hinge of the lid is maintained by a chain. Handle in turned wood. Control mark probably of English origin Master silversmith: Etienne Louis WAUSTERUD, received in 1726 Gross weight: 1195.2 g - height: 25 cm VALENCIENNES CIRCA 1720 - 1730 A large quadripod silver chocolate pot Master silversmith: Etienne Louis WAUSTERUD