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Tazza. Presumed to have been given to Queen Victoria in 1855. French. Rock crystal. Jules Wièse, designer for Froment-Meurice. Maker’s marks: Struck with the mark of Jules Wièse. Stamped “FROMENT MEURICE PARIS.” Image © Royal Collection Trust. Fair use license. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/victoria-albert-art-love/the-queens-gallery-buckingham-palace/tazza
Two silver gilt mounted agate tazza that rest on oval bases with four foliated feet set with red stones. One adorned with a man and the other with a woman surrounded by ivy enameled garlands along with other decoration. ca, 1840-1845. French. Silver-gilt, enamel, conch beads, pearls, orange carnelian and brown agate. Image © 2020 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/style-silver-furniture-vertu-and-miniatures-online/two-silver-gilt-mounted-agate-tazze-by-francois
Coupe with the trunk in the motif of a boy who kills a dragon with a trident and a star-shaped foot, decorated with Neo-Gothic tracery. The shell shaped cuppa being held within the upper part which has high curling ears crowned by dragons. ca. 1849. French. Silver gilt and pearl. Cuppa inscription “A MR MEL POISAT, SOUVENIR DE SON AMI LE BON JAMES DE ROTHSCHILD, À L’OCCASION DU VINGT-CINQUIEME ANNIVERSAIRE DE SON MARIAGE.-LE 27 NOVEMBRE 1851.” Jules Wièse, designer for Froment-Meurice. Maker’s marks: Alloy mark and inscribed “FROMENT-MEURICE”. Collections of the Rjksmuseum, Amsterdam. Cc0 Licence 1,9. via https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/BK-1989-13
Casket with figure of Morpheus. ca. 1793-98. French. Cast, chased, and gilded silver. Jean-Guillaume Moitte, designer. Workshop of Henri Auguste. Image © 2017 Toledo Museum of Art. Fair use license. via http://emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/55445/casket-with-figure-of-morpheus?ctx=6215fd7d-a7b1-4785-a03a-bf8181eb4412&idx=4
Ewer. 1798-1809. Silver-gilt with an ebony handle. One of a number of silver-gilt pieces given to Stephanie de Beauharnais by Napoleon as a wedding gift in 1806.Engraved with a crowned ‘SN’. Marks: Paris 1798-1809 and maker’s mark of Henri Auguste. Struck on base with mark of the Association of Gold and Silversmiths. Image © Royal Collection Trust. Fair use license. viua https://www.rct.uk/collection/48456/ewer
Beckford Behaguee Ewer. Commissioned by William Beckford ca. 1789. Gold with an ebony double snake shaped handle. Engraved in the pedestal “AUGUSTE ORFEVRE OF THE KING IN PARIS 1790”. Henri Auguste, maker. Photo © Christie’s Image Ltd 2015. Fair use license. via http://www.alaintruong.com/archives/2015/11/04/32883457.html
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