This Golden Jug That Louis XV Gave His Mistress Could Bring $1.4M at Auction
By Georgina Jadikovskaall, Zenger News
On 6/3/21 at 9:19 AM EDT
It is part of the collection of Belgian antique dealer Bernard De Leye.
The art dealer s collection of 220 artworks, includes objects of vertu, silverwork, paintings and sculptures, as well as a silver gilt ewer with an estimated value of $1.5 million, made by the French silversmith Jean-Baptiste-Francois Cheret in Paris in 1770.
An auctioneer in Cologne, Germany will seek $1.4 million during a July auction for a jug that French King Louis XV once gave to his mistress, Marguerite Catherine Hainault, when she became engaged to marry a French army colonel.