A comprehensive dental set

细节

A comprehensive dental set
by Bucquet, Paris, with fifty-four pluggers, scalers, finger drills, bisturieres, lancets and cauterisers with agate handles, two mirrors with cast, gilt-metal yokes and agate handles, gilt file-carrier, two hyperdermic syringes, three scissors, thirty-three metal-handled forceps, six double-headed pluggers, two finger-drills and two tooth key shafts, four ivory pots and two glass bottles, all in a brass-bound mahogany case with two lift-out trays, the silk, inner-lid liner with three gilt-tooled coats-of-arms, the case signed Bucquet, Garnerie & Ebenisterie, 10 Rue Hautefeville, Paris -- 28½in.(75cm.) wide

拍品专文

The coats of arms are from left to right:
The Royal Arms of Spain
Queen Ysabel II, reigned 1833-1868
King Alfonso XII, reigned 1874-1885
King Alfonso XIII, reigned 1886-1931 (from 1886-1902 under the regency of his mother Queen Maria Cristina.

The Imperial Arms of Austria
Emporor Franz Joseph I, reigned 1848-1916

The Royal Arms of Portugal
Queen Maria II da Gloria, reigned 1834-1853
King Pedro V, reigned 1853-1861
King Louis I, reigned 1861-1889
King Carlos I, reigned 1889-1908

According to the vendor this set was presented by a Spanish Queen to her Physician, an ancestor of the vendor.