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John Farquhar.  Jacques Kugel, Paris.  Sale, Sotheby's, Monte Carlo,  June 24, 1986, lot 1601.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Silver-gilt, Paris, 1789-90,  Henri Auguste","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Snodin, Michael and Baker, Malcolm. 'William Beckford's Silver II', <u>The Burlington Magazine</u>, vol. 122, December 1980, pp. 735-48, pp. 820-34, fig. 15."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Frégnac, Claude, ed. <u>Les Grandes Orfèvres de Louis XIII à Charles X</u>. Paris: Hachette 1965, pp. 270-71"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Schroder, Timothy. <u>The Gilbert collection of gold and silver</u>.  Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no. 168, pp. 617-621.  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