DUNKERQUE 1749 Silver teapot with sconces decoration. Baluster-shaped model standing on a frame. Decorated in the middle of the body on an amatized background with lanceolate sconces and mantling delimited by a rush. The spout is finished with a swan's head. The lid, with multiple doucines, is moulded with gadroons in recall on the terrace finished by a spinning top. Turned wooden handle restored. Master goldsmith : Guillaume BERT - date of reception unknown - exercised in 1755 Gross weight : 827,5 g - height : 19,4 cm Marked : of chance of revolutionary period Condition : restorations to the upper threaded circles, monogram degraded Provenance : Henri Halle Collection (New York : cf Dennis Faith, Three centuries of French domestic Silver), exhibited at the Metroplitan Museum of Art, 1960, n°460. Reproduced and written in the publication Dunkerque et Bergues, page 64 DUNKERQUE 1749 A silver teapot Master silversmith: Guillaume BERT