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A silver cruet, by Giovanni Veglianti silversmith, Rome, 1790.
Description:The oil-cruet is constituted by an oval base in the shape of butterfly's wings, two containers for cruets with three pilaster strip and lion head connected by festoons of shoots of grape and garlands of laurel.
Handle with rocaille motive.
The oil-cruet is made out of fused silver, hurled and chiseled with some parts realized with the method of the fusion to lost wax, such as the lion heads.
Giovanni Veglianti, through this oil-cruet, shows to be a precocious interpreter of the neoclassic pattern with however a visible rococo influence in the handle.
Veglianti (Naples 1754-1815 Rome) was a silversmith during the period 1790-1814 in Rome, Italy, via del Pellegrino 65.
The glass cruets are not the original ones.
Marks: 1) mark n°1068a, branch of coral; 2) Vatican silver stamp mark.
Weight: gr. 479 / 15.4 Troy oz
Bibliography: Anna Bulgari Calissoni Maestri Argentieri Gemmari e Orafi a Roma, F.lli Palombi Editori, Roma 1987, pag. 520.
Age:c. 1790
Dimensions:8 1/4 inc. height; 7 inc. wide; 5 inc. depth
Price: Sold
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