Silverware religious sanctuary lamp,

The sanctuary lamp of 18 century is a piece of religious jewelry, brass pushed, chopped and silver produced by the Lyon bossetier - goldsmith Chabout active from 1737 to 1788.

This object is in very good condition of preservation, without distortion, with a beautiful silver, in excellent condition on the outside of the vase, it bears the mark author Chabov in Lyon, and the stamp at r crowned which means metal products derived from copper before 1740.

It is richly decorated with rococo motifs, rosettes and acanthus leaves, three suspension chains attached directly to the scalloped edge of the pot (all the elements of this lamp is original and kind of time eighteenth, and have not been restored. ).

This kind of jewelry plated, has escaped the successive fonts, and is today witnessing church silver of the eighteenth century, including Lyon, the city considered the most religious of France, had become the great center of production.

We find books of bossetier Chabout, registered in the inventory of Historic Monuments in Ettendorf (67) Chateauneuf (21) Aubenas (07), Ancizan (65), Boën (42), Saint-Didier (39) Savigny (89), Laguepie (82), Saint Baudille (38), Locronan (29).

This object, relatively rare, the fact of identification of its author, may find its place in a good collection or a museum of Sacred Art. Dimensions, height about 21 cm, diameter of the vase, 21.5 cm height with chain, 75/76 Inches.

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