Sugar bowl, Marc-Etienne Janety (French, 1739–1820, master 1777), 1786, French, Paris, Platinum, blue glass, 5 1/4 × 7 in. (13.3 × 17.8 cm), Metalwork-Gold and Platinum, Marc-Etienne Janety (French, 1739–1820, master 1777), Janety appears to have been the first European silversmith to work in platinum, newly available to silversmiths in the 1780s. It had recently been discovered that arsenic lowered the melting point of platinum, allowing it to be cast and then worked
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Sugar bowl, Marc-Etienne Janety, French, 1739–1820, master 1777, 1786, Paris, Platinum, blue glass, 5 1/4, 7, 13.3, 17.8 cm, Metalwork-Gold, master, 1777, Janety, first European silversmith, work, platinum, newly available, silversmiths, 1780s, recently, discovered, arsenic lowered, melting point, allowing, cast, worked
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