CARDEILHAC - MAÎTRE ORFÈVRE À PARISLes trèfles,... Lot 12

CARDEILHAC - MAÎTRE ORFÈVRE À PARISLes trèfles, le modèle (verseuse à café) présenté à l'Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900Rare and exceptional set of three silver pieces composed of a coffee pot, a tea pot and a sugar pot covered with vermeil inside; the decorations are repoussé and/or engraved. The grips, handles and seeds are made of finely carved ivory and partly burnished. Each piece resting on curvilinear and ribbed feet; four for the pourers, three for the sugar bowl. A very slight indentation on the tea pot, two on the sugar pot. Each piece marked CARDEILHAC Paris under its base and bears the marks of Master Goldsmith and title. Height coffee pot: 25.5 cmHeight tea pot: 18 cmHeight sugar pot: 12 cmTotal gross weight : 862 gBibliography : Alastair Duncan - The Paris Salons 1895-1914 - Volume V: Objets d'art & Metalware - Edition Antique Collectors' Club, 1998 . Identical model of the coffee pot reproduced on page 163.