Estimate

4.000 - 4.500

Session 1

22 November 2022

Hammer Price

Description

French silver
Chiselled foliage decoration resting on a circular foot. Greyhound head spout
Teapot (23 cm), coffee pot (28 cm), sugar bowl (17,5 cm) and milk jug (17,5 cm)
Paris, marked CARDEILHAC and Minerva 1st grade
(in very good condition)

Category

Silver

Additional Information

The Maison CARDEILHAC (1804-1951) was founded by Antoine-Vital CARDEILHAC in 1804 at 4 rue du Roule.
Producing pieces in the various styles but all of exceptional design and technical quality, CARDEILHAC would, along the years, be awarded various medals; a bronze medal at the 1823 Exhibition and silver medals in 1827 and 1834.
Between 1851 and 1885, the firm was managed by his son Armand-Édouard CARDEILHAC who will also be awarded a silver medal at the 1878 Universal Exhibition, a fact that would consecrate the already prestigious company.
In 1885 his grandson Ernest, who had completed his apprenticeship with the silversmith Harleux, assumes the management. From then on, both gold and silversmithing will be introduced in the company and the workshops reorganised for this production. Ernest acquired also the fund of "Maison LEBON".
Assisted by three artists, the designer Lucien-Hugues BONVALLET, the sculptor Ernest AIGUIER and the chiseller Frédéric VIAT, Cardeilhac exhibits its earliest works at the Universal Exhibition of 1889, being awarded a silver medal. In the 1900 Exhibition he presides over the tableware jury, having also achieved considerable success with pieces produced in silver associated to other materials such as wood or ivory.
Marie-Amélie CARDEILHAC, widow of Armand-Édouard, will eventually assume the leadership between 1904 and 1913, based at 24 place Vendôme, manufacturing silver plated objects and, between 1904 and 1920, at 91 rue de Rivoli, producing silver pieces, later passing the firm to her two sons Jacques and Pierre.
In 1951, the company merges with Maison CHRISTOFLE.
It is possible to see pieces by CARDEILHAC in the most renowned international museum collections such as the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts or the Cleveland Museum of Art in the U.S.A., the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo, the Kunsgewerbe Museum in Berlin, Najonalmuseet in Oslo to the Tsarskoïe Selo Palace in Russia.