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Table and silverware

The housewife under fifty much likes the similarly-named ménagère (canteen of cutlery). But table- and silverware auctions feature fine antique cutlery sets in silver or vermeil, containing table forks and knives, coffee and dessert spoons, sugar tongs and pie servers, meticulously presented in a fine box.traditional silverware with shell or filet patterns and remarkable pieces by silversmiths in the rocaille (odiot) or art deco styles (puiforcat, christofle, etc.) Feature in these online auctions, with dinner services in porcelain (sèvres, meissen, limoges) or earthenware (moustiers, gien, nevers), which include dinner, soup and dessert plates, tureens and sauce boats.
Not to mention "top-glass" sets of glasses and carafes in baccarat, saint-louis and daum crystal, which rival with ornamental pieces for presenting and serving sweet substances: ewers, sweet jars, sugar dredgers, jam pot, and the like.
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One ornamental piece that still exists today is the champagne bucket: an item that regularly appears in drouot auctions.

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Felix BRACQUEMOND (Paris, 1833 - Sèvres, 1914) & Manufacture Creil & Montereau Important part of a dinner service known as "Rousseau à Peigné" - model created in 1866 Composed of ninety-nine earthenware pieces with white background, polychrome decoration and scalloped edges: - eighty-three plates, - eight pedestal tables, - three round dishes, - two oval dishes, - two ravioli dishes, - a salad bowl Most published by Lebeuf & Millet, between 1866 and 1875 Marked "E. Rousseau à Paris" for Eugène Rousseau Marked "Creil LM & Cie Montereau", "Lebeuf & Millet". Various sizes (Small chips and missing parts) An important part of a faience service "Rousseau à Peigné" including ninetynine pieces by Félix Bracquemond for Manufacture Creil & Montereau - model created in 1866 Bibliography : Masseau, Annick and Didier, L'Escalier de Cristal, Le luxe à Paris 1809-1923, 2021, p. 136-137 for an identical model. Exhibitions : Bouillon, Jean-Paul (dir.), cat. exp. Félix et Marie Bracquemond, Mortagne et Musée des beaux-arts de Chartres,1972, p. 25 for our model Borowitz, Helen O. (dir.), exhibition catalogue, Japonisme: Japanese influence on French Art 1854-1910, Cleveland Museum, 1975, p. 157-158 for an identical model Van Rappard-Boon, Charlotte (dir.), cat. exp. exhibition, Félix Bracquemond: 1833-1914, Van Gogh Museum,1994, p. 12-17 for an identical model Duncan, Alastair (dir.), cat. exp. Louis C. Tiffany, The Garden Museum Collection, 2004, p. 632-633 for an identical model Bouillon, Jean-Paul (dir.), Félix Bracquemond, 1833-1914, graveur et céramiste, cat. exp. exhibition, Cabinet cantonal des estampes à Vevey, Fondation Neumann à Gingis, 2003-2004, p. 66-94 for our model Bouillon, Jean-Paul (dir.), cat. exp. Félix Bracquemond et les arts décoratifs. Du japonisme à l'Art nouveau (Limoges, Musée national Adrien Dubouché, April 5 - July 4, 2005, then in Selb-Plössberg, Deutsches Porzellanmusem, July 25 - October 25, 2005, then in Beauvais, Musée départemental de l'Oise, November 16, 2005 - February 13, 2006), p. 45-65 for our model. Felix BRACQUEMOND (Paris, 1833 - Sèvres, 1914)

Estim. 10,000 - 15,000 EUR

Felix BRACQUEMOND (Paris, 1833 - Sèvres, 1914) Manufacture Haviland & C° Important part of a "Fleurs et rubans" dinner service - Model created in 1879 Composed of eighty-seven earthenware pieces with a white background, polychrome enamel decoration and scalloped edges: - thirty-two dinner plates, - twelve dessert plates, - twelve large soup plates, - a large salad bowl, - a small bowl, - a large bowl, - two high pedestal tables, - two low pedestal tables, - two low plates, - one large soup tureen, - a medium tureen, - two small tureens, - a sugar bowl with two lids, - a gravy boat, - four round flat dishes, - two hollow round dishes, - four ravioli dishes, - five oval dishes, - an asparagus dish First edition of 1879 Monogrammed "B" in the decor for Félix Bracquemond Marked "Creil Montereau B et Cie", "Barluet et Cie" and "Haviland et Cie. Paris" on the reverse Various sizes (Small chips and missing parts) Parts of an earthenware "à Fleurs et rubans" service by Félix Bracquemond for Manufacture Haviland & Cº including eigthy-seven pieces - model created in 1879 Bibliography : Beraldi, Henri, Les graveurs du XIXe siècle, III Bracquemond, Paris, 1885, p. 150-154, for a similar model. Exhibitions : Bouillon, Jean-Paul (dir.), cat. exp. Félix et Marie Bracquemond, Mortagne - Chartres, May - September 1972, p. 26 for our service Bouillon, Jean-Paul (ed.), exhibition catalogue, An Artistic Collaboration: Bracquemond and Baron Vitta, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 1979, p. 303 for a similar model. Bouillon, Jean-Paul (dir.), cat. exp. Félix Bracquemond, 1833-1914, graveur et céramiste, Cabinet cantonal des estampes à Vevey, Fondation Neumann à Gingis, 2003-2004, p. 103-107 for our service. Bouillon, Jean-Paul (dir.), Félix Bracquemond, 1833-1914, graveur et céramiste, cat. exp. exhibition, Cabinet cantonal des estampes à Vevey, Fondation Neumann à Gingis, 2003-2004, p. 126-133 for our service Patry, Sylvie and Robbins, Anne (dir.), exhibition catalogue, Le décor impressionniste : aux sources des nymphéas, Musée de l'Orangerie, 2022, p. 202 for our service Felix BRACQUEMOND (Paris, 1833 - Sèvres, 1914)

Estim. 20,000 - 40,000 EUR

RARE COUTEAU DE TABLE EN ARGENT AUX ARMES DE L’EMPEREUR NAPOLÉON IER PAR BIENNAIS - Table knife of the filets model, in silver 1st title (950 thousandths) and steel blade, the handle embossed with the large arms of Emperor Napoleon I. Blade stamped with an "H" under a crown and marked Grangeret, coutelier de l'Empereur (since 1806). Paris, 1798-1809. Title mark with 1st cock (partly illegible) and guarantee mark with old man's head. Goldsmith's hallmark of Martin-Guillaume BIENNAIS (1764-1843). Trace of a silversmith's hallmark, possibly by Lorillon, Biennais' subcontractor. L. 21.5 cm. Gross weight: 75.8 g. Provenance - Napoleon I's dinner service. - Taken during the looting of the Emperor's sedan on the evening of June 18, 1815, or taken by him to the island of St. Helena. - Private collection, Paris. History Martin Guillaume Biennais is considered one of France's greatest silversmiths. Under the Empire, he was the goldsmith of the imperial court and, above all, the official goldsmith of Emperor Napoleon I. He was awarded exclusive rights to supply the Emperor's table. In 1802, he obtained exclusive rights to supply the Emperor's table. He produced a vermeil service and a silver service, which were completed in 1810 and 1811. An inventory of the Court's silverware drawn up in 1812 mentions, among other items, "438 knives and flatware". All the pieces received an inventory number engraved by Biennais in September 1812; our knife, unnumbered, apparently escaped this rule. The knives of the large model of the surviving silver service are of the utmost rarity, as we know that all the silver remaining in France was melted down in the 19th century, notably by Napoleon III. Thus, the remaining silver can only have come from St. Helena or from the looting of the sedan at Waterloo (see Exhibition catalog, La berline de Napoléon, le mystère du butin de Waterloo. Musée de la Légion d'Honneur, March 7 to July 8, 2012, article by Anne Dion, p. 259). Other rare pieces of cutlery of this model are currently on display at the Château de la Malmaison and the Château de Fontainebleau. Related works - A complete Emperor cutlery set with a knife from the Berline, Millon sale, May 26, 2023, lot 141 (sold for €62,400). - A complete Emperor's cutlery, in a case, from Joseph Bonaparte, Osenat sale, November 20, 2016, lot 372 (sold for €26,250). - A cutlery set from the looting of the Berline, sold at Kâ-Mondo, June 24, 2015, lot 147 (sold for €31,000). - A set of five table spoons, five table forks, three teaspoons and six table knives, sold at Christie's, Paris, December 19, 2007, lot 173 (sold for €162,000).

Estim. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR