Jam dish

Silver hallmarked (hallmark with sample 1 with profile of old woman "vieille femme" in hexagon, on spoons hallmark with Minerva and goldsmith's mark with illegible monogram in rhombus), glass;
height approx. 24.2 cm, width 23.5 cm, depth 16 cm; length of spoons 14.1 cm; silver weight 625 g.
France, 1819-1838; teaspoons - 2nd half of 19th century.
Square base supported on 4 circular legs, passing to circular, stepped foot and short shaft, openwork basket formed of four curved, faceted bands finished with a composition of acanthus, palmettes and volutes, framed at the top by a rim edged with a profiled band with 12 hooks for spoons. On the sides, tall, sigmoid handles ending in volutes, decorated with acanthus, the lid arched, topped with a domed knob on a godron rosette; matched teaspoons spade-shaped on the rim, profiled, ending in a semicircle; the inlay made of crystal glass cut in a slanting checkered pattern is not original.