Pair of Ornate French Silver .950 Claret Wine Jugs – Claude Doutre-Roussel, Paris

A pair of French First Standard (.950) Silver-Mounted Glass Claret Jugs, late 19th century, by Claude Doutre-Roussel, Paris, in the rococo taste.

Pear shaped glass body is decorated with vertical fluting and etched with Musical instrument motif & crossed torches on the opposite side.  The silver is pierced and decorated with opposing cartouches the the neck and collar in a “duck’s beak’ spout with hinged lid.  Each stands on a circular foot with Rococo style apron and four feet.

French marks impressed in bottom of each with D.Roussel maker’s mark.

Each jug measures 9 3/4” high,  4-3/4″in diameter.