A PAIR OF FRENCH SILVER SAUCE BOATS

Bearing marks for Paris, 1723

Each ovoid body with a shaped reeded rim continuing to a rising back with a cast and chased leafage scroll handle above a bullrush terminal, the sides applied with a cast coat of arms on a scroll and leafage cartouche, all on a conforming low scrolled foot. Maker's mark I T a turnip(?) between. Outer surfaces lacquered. H: 6-1/4, l.: 7-1/2 in.; wt.: 31 oz.