TWO FRENCH WINE-TASTERS

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TWO FRENCH WINE-TASTERS
one by Matthieu Pierre Lamoureux (Helft, 1053), Rouen, 1775,
the other by Joseph-Marie Lhermite, Rennes, 1754


Circular, the first engraved Mie. Ane Piquenot, the mushroom-shaped thumbpiece engraved with the inscription VIVE LA BOUTEILLE and a vine-tender holding a bottle in one hand and a glass in the other, the second one engraved P. Gandons, the mushroom-shaped thumpiece engraved with the inscription SANS VOUS IE LANGUIS and with stylised sunflower turned to the sun.
8.1 cm diam., 9.4 cm diam.
(120 gr, 106 gr) (2)

拍品专文

For a wine-taster similar to the one by M. P. Lamoureux, see Collection D. David Weill, vol. I, no. 111.