Oval, decorated overall with panels of engine-turning in coin-pattern circles, within sablé borders and side pilasters, marked on interior cover, base, and side with date letter, maker's mark, and charge mark for Jean Baptiste Fouache, 1774-1780, the flange with decharge mark
2¹⁄₄ in. (5.7 cm.) wide
2 oz. 6 dwt. (72 gr.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 December 2018, lot 41.

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The son of a cobbler, Germain Chayé was apprenticed to Claude Dargent at the age of fifteen. Chayé registered his mark in 1755 sponsored by Jean-Charles Frémin. By 1774 he was ranked thirteenth in his guild, and was subsequently elected an official of the corporation eight years later. Henry Nocq noted that his name appeared often in the registers, proving the importance of his production, and good clientele (see Le Poinçon de Paris, Paris, 1926, p. 251).