Magnificent aspersorium bucket in engraved, embossed and chased silver sheet, Rome 1747. Of circular section, it features a high smooth rim with vertical ribs. The body, wide and bellied, richly decorated with volutes and gadroons, rests on a wide foot with a mixtilinear edge and ornamented with a band of embossed ovolos. The robust handle, aesthetically essential and of high sheet thickness, is inserted into the two rings present in the body of the object. It bears the chamber stamp of Rome, the assays and the stamp of the Roman goldsmith Giuseppe Bartolotti, born in 1709 and who became a master silversmith from 1731 until 1775, the year of his death; his punch with the sign of the Fisherman depicts just a fish [Costantino G. Bulgari, Argentieri gemmari e orafi d’Italia, Part I Rome, F.lli Palombi Editori, Rome, 1980, n. 234, page 112]. As the inscription indicates, the furniture was made in 1747 probably commissioned for a church or private chapel dedicated to Saint Anthony Abbot (engraving of the saint present in the center of the edge). The buckets for holy water, the natural evolution of the stoups, allowed the consecrated water to be transported to asperge the faithful or things, often the wear and tear, due to the water they contained and the delicacy of the altar boys during the liturgical celebrations, present damage or restorations. This specimen of ours is in excellent condition. Too bad for the lack of its aspergillum "sprinkled" over the centuries. Dimensions: height 12 cm, mouth diameter 16 cm, foot diameter 10.8 cm