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Pair of Sugar Casters
Creator
Simon GallienFrench Artist · 1757–1714
All works by this person →Scholars depend on church and guild records to learn basic information about the life of the silversmith Simon Gallien. On the third of February in 1714, he registered his mark: his initials *SG* with a sun and two grains below a fleur-de-lis. Nothing else is known about him.
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- 1743–1744
- Medium
- Silver
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Decorative Arts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Sugar was a rare commodity until the end of the 1500s and continued to be expensive long after that time. With a certain amount of ceremony, it was sprinkled in powdered form on fruit or other desserts from casters such as these unusually large ones. The silversmith Simon Gallien followed a traditional form for these casters, decorating them with flower blossoms in high relief, scrolls, and trelliswork piercing, all typical features of the Rococo style.
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