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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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CHRISTOFLE-CARDEILHAC & Lino SABATTINI (b. 1925), designer. Como model, created circa 1956-1957 Modernist tea and coffee set comprising four pieces: coffee pot, teapot, sugar bowl and milk jug. Plain silver, handles sheathed in raffia-like fibers. Hallmarks: Minerve; Cardeilhac and goldsmith O.C. for Orfèvrerie Christofle. (Minor wear scratches.) Gross weight: 1655.2 g.; Height. from 7 to 22 cm In the mid-1950s, Lino Sabattini opened a goldsmith's workshop in Milan that quickly attracted the attention of Gio Ponti. Ponti wrote an article about him in Domus magazine, and in 1956 presented his work in Paris at an exhibition devoted to Italian design. Sabatini went on to win international recognition and became design director for Christofle Orfèvrerie (which had bought Cardeilhac in 1951). He breathed new life into the company, founded in 1830, by creating modernist cutlery, shaped pieces and candleholders for the "Formes nouvelles" collection. The Como model is most often produced in silver-plated metal by Christofle for the Gallia collection. This silver edition by Christofle-Cardeilhac is therefore particularly rare. Provenance: - Acquired directly from Christofle on June 12, 1957, according to invoice: "Argent massif 1er titre: une cafetière Sabattini, une théière, un sucrier et un crémier". Bibliography: - Connaissance des Arts, May 1999, n°561 p. 71 for an identical silver model. - AD, September-October 2011 n°103, "Échappée belle en ville" by Esther Henwood, for an identical silver model from the Yves Gastou gallery. - Anne Bony, Les Années 50, Paris, 1982, p. 355 for an identical model in silver-plated metal.

Estim. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR

L'ASSIETTE AU BEURRE, 118 issues between 1906 and 1908. L'Assiette au Beurre was a weekly periodical that satirized and attacked the bourgeoisie and government institutions, while tackling various social and political issues of the Belle Époque. Each issue was illustrated by a single artist. Covers by : 1906 - 51 issues Villemot, Grandjouan, A Roubille, Iribe/Camara, Fourment, Galentura, Barrere, Hermann paul, Grandiouan/Delannoy/Naudin (various), Radiguet, Grandiouan, Wagner (various), Radiguet, Grandiouan, Villemot, Vadaz, Hermann Paul, Carlegle, Camara, Valéry Muller, Poulbot, Ibels, Camara, Naudin, Guydo, Bernard, Flores, Grandiouan, Gallo, Flores/Poulbot, Villemot, Radiguet, Radiguet, Galanis, Grandjouan, Galantara (various), Iribe, Camara, Poulbot/Florès, Grandiouan, Kirchner/ Jozsa, Camara / Radiguet, Malteste, Tossol (various), Camara, Galanis, Grandjouan 1907 - 49 issues Radiguet, Jossol, Naudin, Berger, Ostoya, Delannoy, Kirchner, Naudin, Grandiouan (various), Jossol, Galanis, Galanis, Camara, Hermann Paul, Jossol, Savignol, Grandjouan, Bernard, Poulbot, Grandiouan, Jossol (various), Galantara, Flores, Ostova, Delannoy, Barcet, Jossol, Grandiouan, Hermann Paul, Radiguet, Galanis, Naudin, Flores, Delannoy, Kirchner, Plumer, Jossol, Grandjouan, Radiguet, Jossol (various), Almerevda, Bernard, Brunner, Grandjouan 1908 - 18 issues Villemot, Radiguet, Poulbot, Illero, Bernard, Radiguet, Delannoy, Delannoy, (various), (various), Grandiouan, Delannoy, Helle, (various), Poulbot, Grandiouan, Radiguet, Poncet (Lot as is - some issues damaged)

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR