About This Artwork

Jean Françoise Dapcher, 1721-1780
France, Paris

Tureen and Stand, 1773/74

Silver with repoussé, cast, applied, and chased decoration
Overall: Height: 34.3 cm (13 3/4 in.); Diameter: 49.2 cm (19 3/8 in.)
Tureen: 28.6 x 42.6 x 29.2 (11 1/4 x 16 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.)
Marks: JF surmounted by tower, dexter female head, A,K, lobed flower.
Lid - A crowned, K crowned; Tureen - A crowned, maker's mark and, n rim, two discharge marks; Stand - A crowned K crowned (3 times), maker's mark (3 times), rosette, and, on rim, discharge mark.
Inventory numbers: lid and stand: "No. 3.29 and 3.30"; tureen and liner:"No. 2.29 and 57.30".
Buckingham Fund, 1958.510a-b

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Tureen and Stand, 1773/74



France, Paris
Jean Françoise Dapcher (French, 1721-1780)
Silver with repoussé, cast, applied, and chased decoration

Buckingham Fund
1958.510a-b



This Louis XV tureen in from one of the most celebrated services of the eighteenth century, produced for Count Alexander Sergeevitch Stroganoov, Russian ambassador to London and Naples, and renowned patron and collector of the arts. Dapcher, the maker of the tureen, was a pupil of the great Parisian silversmith and goldsmith, Françoise Thomas Germain (French, 1726-1791), and his work is rather rare today.