112 FRENCH SILVER
from 1760-1761 (temporarily residing in the
hotel Jacques-Samuel Bernard in the rue du
Bac), and later Secretary of State to King
Jose I and subsequently to Queen Maria I,
listed in the September 14, 1796, inventory
of his possessions (taken after his death) with
their lids decorated with artichokes, cauli
flowers, birds, shells, and shrimp (these lids
were probably lost at the beginning of the
nineteenth century); Mello e Castro de Vil-
hena family, Portugal and Paris, by descent;
(sold, Christies, Geneva, November 11, 1975,
lot 230); Jean Rossignol, Geneva, 1975.EXHIBITIONS
Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga,
Exposicao de arte francesa, May-June 1934,
nos. 230-231; Paris, Musee des Arts Decora-
tifs, Les Tresors de I'orfevrerie du Portugal,
November 1954-January 1955, no. 453.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Daniel Alcouffe, Louis XV: Un Moment de
perfection de Vanfrancais" Hotel de la
Monnaie, Paris, 1974, no. 484, p. 358;
Thomas Milnes-Gaskell, "Thomas Ger
main," Christies Review of the Season
(London and New York, 1976), pp. 219-221,
illus.; Wilson, "Acquisitions 1982," no. 3,
pp. 24-28, illus.; Wilson, Selections, no. 11,
pp. 22-23, illus.; Armin B. Allen, An
Exhibition of Ornamental Drawings (New
York, 1982), no. 53, illus.; Handbook 1986, p.
157, illus. (one); Bruno Pons, "Hotel
Jacques-Samuel Bernard," Le Faubourg
Saint-Germain: la rue du Bac, Etudes offertes
a Colette Lamy-Lassalle (Paris, 1990),pp. 126-153; Leonor d'Orey, The Silver
Service of the Portuguese Crown (Lisbon,
1991), pp. 24-25, illus. p. 25.187- Lidded Ecuelle
Paris, 1727
By Claude-Gabriel Dardet
Silver-gilt
Marked on bowl with the maker's stamp
of C.G.D., a dart, and two grains below a
crowned fleur-de-lys; a crowned L (the war
den's mark used between August 13,1727,
and August 12, 1728); a crowned A (the
charge mark used between September 3,
1727, and December 22,1732, under the
fermier Jacques Cottin); a fleur-de-lys
within a pomegranate (the discharge mark
used on large silver objects between Septem
ber 3,1727, and December 22, 1732); an
unidentified flower, possibly a lily of the
valley (a discharge mark used to indicate a
minimum standard of silver between 1727
and 1732); and a boar's head (the "restricted
warranty" of .800 minimum silver standard
used in Paris exclusively from May 10, 1838).
Bowl engraved with the coat of arms of the
Moulinet family, probably in the nineteenth
century.
Height: 4% in. (10.8 cm); Width: 1134 in.
(29.9 cm); Depth: yVs in. (18.7 cm)
Accession number 7i.DG.77.a-.b
PROVENANCE
Moulinet family, Ile-de-France; M. Marquis,
Paris (sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, February
10-18, 1890, lot no [?]); David David-Weill,
Paris (sold, Palais Galliera, Paris, Novem
ber 24, 1971, lot 17); purchased at that sale
by J. Paul Getty.BIBLIOGRAPHY
Emile Dacier, LArt au XVIIIeme siecle en
France (Paris, 1951), no. 192, p. no, illus.- Lidded Bowl and Stand
Lacquer: Japanese, early eighteenth century
Mounts: Paris, circa 1727-1738
Wood lacquered with red and brown
pigments; gold powder; silver-gilt mounts
Lid, bowl, and stand mounts variously
marked with the unidentified maker's stamp
P.L.R. with a crescent, two grains, and a
fleur-de-lys; a crowned bell (the Paris
countermark used between September 3,
1727, and December 22, 1732, under the
fermier Jacques Cottin); a crowned S (the
warden's mark used between September 18,
1734, and September 23, 1735); and an
unidentified mark.