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OLD ROUND TRAY PERLE
MADE BY CHRISTOFLE/GALLIA FRANCE
DIAMETER 32CM/12,59"
WEIGHT 1345 GRAMS / 47,40 OZ
IN GOOD CONDITION, SOME MINOR SMALL SCRATCHES
MATERIAL / SILVER PLATED BUT VERY HIGH QUALITY
SILVERSMITH / CHRISTOFLE , GALLIA FRANCE
Since 1830, Christofle has been France's foremost supplier of fine silver. Working in a silver alloy of the highest quality, artisans handcraft the flatware and hollowware that makes this brand legendary, in designs ranging from museum reproductions to modern contemporary styles. Renowned for elegant styling & quality, Christofle also creates porcelain & glass pieces for the table & home decor
Charles Christofle, who founded his company in 1831, quickly recognised the chance to produce by means of the new industrial procedures table silver for a wider civil public as well. Christofle was the first company on the European continent that made use of the galvanic techniques for the serial production of table silver. The company's printed catalogues in which since the 1850's all the models and prices of the current production were listed, were part of the modern marketing concept of Christofle.
During the Second Empire, Christofle advanced to the position of a purveyor to the imperial court. Industrially silver-plated table decoration corresponded to the imperial ideology of progress formed by the Saintsimonismus.
After the downfall of the Second Empire in 1870, the Company Christofle considered itself to be forced to change its image. The imperial house disappeared as a lucrative client. In the field of the decorative art, the initial enthusiasm for industrial techniques changed more and more to a consciousness on traditional craft values. Now the company Christofle stressed in its advertisements that they also produced solid silver products following drafts of artists-tendencies that led to the Art Nouveau (to mentioning just some key words: demand of honesty when using the material, vocation of well known artists by the companies, handicraft point of view by the martelé technique). Much more often than in the starting years, we can find now illustred names from the Paris society in the archives from Christofle (Manzanedo-Santoòa, Pereire, Marquise de Païva, Earl Henckel von Donnersmarck...). The mark for Christofle was a bee in a wide diamond-shaped cartouche with a "C" on either side and three stars at the top.
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