PAIR OF SILVER DUSTERS By Jean-Baptiste Navier, 1716-1717 Of baluster form, resting on a gadrooned pedestal, the lower part with applied decoration of lambrequins on an amati ground, topped by a frieze of gadroons, the neck engraved with lambrequins on an amati ground, the lid with a bayonet opening, the lower part gadrooned, the upper part pierced with lozenge motifs and stylised flowers, the floral button handle; repolished. Letter-date stamp G Height: 24.5 cm (9 ½ in.) A pair of silver sprinklers, by Jean-Baptiste Navier, 1716-1717 For a sprinkler by this silversmith, see the sale of the Diane collection, Sotheby's Geneva, 16 November 2005, no. 107, probably the same one illustrated in Connaissances des Arts, le XVIIIe siècle, p. 104. For another saupoudroir by the same silversmith and very similar to the one shown here, see Sotheby's Paris, 28 June 2022, no. 70, provenance Jacques Favre de Thierrens. Jean-Baptiste Navier was received as a master in Perpignan on 12 June 1712. He was assayer at the Perpignan mint from 1716 to 1763. His wife was the daughter of a silversmith (Finot) and his two daughters in turn married silversmiths (Bachelard and Depierre). He died in 1767. Jean-Baptiste Navier is also known for his works of sacred art. In his 1994 book L'Orfèvrerie en Roussillon, Louis Ausseil noted chalices in various churches in the region: Banyuls-dels-Aspres (south of Perpignan), Bouleternère, Montalba, Pézilla-la-Rivière, Rodès (west of Perpignan) and a silver tray in the Saint-Jean-Baptiste cathedral in Perpignan.