PAIR OF ITALIAN VERMEIL SILVER FIGURAL TRIPLE SALTS, RETAILER DEL BONO, SILVERSMITH BARTOLOZZI, MARKED, FLORENTINE, 1949-1968, each in the Rococo taste and cast as paired smiling putti holding aloft a lidded basket form salt cellar with floral bloom finial topped lid, seated before matching oval salt cellars on a shaped base modeled with cast and hand chased fruit clusters in deep relief, above an undulating base rim with curling tipped "S" ribbons and raised on "C" scrolled feet, each verso interior of one salt basket base stamped with silver purity oval "800," and lozenge silversmith with province initials "215FI," for Bartolini Bartolozzi of Florence, and applied retailer's gilt paper crowed oval enclosing "DEL BONO / GIOELLIERE / FIRENZE," each includes; three matching salt spoons stamped "800," cobalt blue glass liners, and a Del Bono deep blue velvet lined presentation box; each height: 4 1/2", width: 4 1/2", depth: 3"; total combined approximate weight excluding glass liners: 36.380 ozt. Note: Bartolini Bartolozzi was a well known Italian silversmith in the regions of Florence and Milan during the second half of the 20th century. His company Fabbrica Argenteria Fiorentina di Bartolini Bartolozzi was active from 1949-1999.

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