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Marc-Etienne Janety
(? - ?)
Paires de salières, monture à guirlande laurier, et têtes de lions, une urne surmonte le tout
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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Daniel Arnaudet
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
saltcellar
Louis XVI style
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About the artwork
Title:
Paires de salières, monture à guirlande laurier, et têtes de lions, une urne surmonte le tout
Periods:
18th century
modern age
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
silver (metal)
crystal
Dimensions:
80 x 105
Inventory number:
OA9872
Detail:
1778-1779
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Marc-Etienne Janety
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Marc-Etienne Janety
(1739-1820) was the Royal Goldsmith to King Louis XVI until 1792, when the King was dethroned. A few of Janety's pieces worked in platinum (a novel metal in the late 1700s) survive. One is a platinum and glass sugar bowl (1786) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The others are four kilograms Janety made in 1796-1799. One of them was declared the Kilogramme des Archives (Kilogram of the French Archives) and became the legal kilogram standard for France in 1799…
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