LUCIEN BONVALLET – ANTOINE-ERNEST CARDEILHAC – “CHARDONS” SUGAR BOWL AND SPOON, CIRCA 1900
“CHARDONS” SUGAR BOWL AND SPOON, CIRCA 1900
Chased and engraved silver, the bowl, lid and spoon with a hand tooled,
incised and repoussé design of nine blooming thistles, their heart,
cover knob and handle with carved and stained ivory motifs.
The sugar bowl stamped underneath CARDEILHAC PARIS, with letter K and Maker’s hallmark.
Height: 19 cm.
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, Paris 1900
Françoise Cachin, [under the direction of] ; Marc Bascou, De Manet à Matisse : sept ans d'enrichissement au Musée d’Orsay, (Paris, musée d'Orsay, November 12 1990-March 10, 1991), Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1990, p. 188
Bibliography
Bouilhet Henri, L'Orfèvrerie française aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles : 1700-1900. 3, L'Orfèvrerie française au XIXe siècle : deuxième période, 1860-1900, Paris, 1912, p. 367
La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, Paris, 1990, n. 2, 155
Gabriele Fahr-Becker, Il Modernismo, h. f. ullmann, 2004, ill. p. 95
Another example (without spoon) of this sugar bowl is part of the Collections of the Musée d’Orsay,
Paris, inv. OAO 1199, since 1989
