Lot 200 D α

36 silver gilt Empire plates

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 50.000 € - 60.000 €

36 silver gilt Empire plates

Round plates with broad rim decorated with a frieze of finely engraved tripods and pairs of swans amid stylised acanthus and a band of palmettes around the edges. 12 plates engraved with the inventory number “8” on the underside, 11 with “10”. Diameter 21.3 cm, total weight ca. 13,500 g.
Paris, marks of Abel-Etienne Giroux, circa 1809.