A FRENCH SILVER STATUE OF A SAINT BISHOP

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A FRENCH SILVER STATUE OF A SAINT BISHOP
possibly Provence circa 1710, maker's mark illegible

The Bishop represented standing, clad in typical church clothes, with the right hand in blessing gesture and the left hand holding a crozier, engraved on the back with accolé armorials beneath Marquis' coronet, marked on back, on a circular black wooden base -- 33 cm (13 in) high without base

来源

Collection of Baron de Giey

拍品专文

The arms are those of Riquetti and Rochemore as borne by Honoré de Riquetti, first Marquis de Mirabeau in 1685, Seigneur de Beaumont, Premier Consul of Aix, Premier Procureur at the Provence Parlement. He married in 1660 Elizabeth de Rochemore and was the great grand father of the famous Honoré de Mirabeau, Deputy to the French Convention.