GUILLOCHE 19C FRENCH STERLING SILVER POT OTTOMAN STYLE

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ORIENTALIST RARE FRENCH STERLING SILVER GUILLOCHE No reserve price for this exceptionnal Museum quality pot All Guilloche Silver large Pot orientalist pattern circa 1870-1880 in Paris & in perfect condition. *** Extremly rare to find on Ebay Make a good deal and place your bids now. PERFECT CONDITION ! Mark : Head of Minerva for 950 French Sterling Silver Hugo in Paris Silversmith Mark / Signature of Cardeilhac Dimensions & Weight 25.5cm - 10'' Height 22cm - 8.66'' Large 509gr - 16.36 oz Weight O rientalism in France was a fanciful image of the mostly Middle-East and things eastern, rather than a reality. The French ' rêve d'orient ' was often based on the books, paintings and photographs of those who had travelled, rather than first-hand experience. Indeed much of the content of those books, paintings and photographs, was even then, the work of a fertile French imagination. Except for the master of the house, or the eunichs, men were not allowed into harems; and it would certainly have been near impossible for a foreigner even less a foreign man, to have had access to such scenes of presumed exotic delight. T had already been literary and artistic contact between France and the east by the beginning of the nineteenth-century. The French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was inspired by the 'Turkish Letters' of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, (published in 1763, shortly after her death) who was the wife of the English ambassador to Constantinople in 1716. In 1806-11, Mouhib Effendi, the ambassador extraordinary of Sultan Selim III visited Paris, and in 1811 the French author Chateaubriand published his 'Itinerary from Paris to Jerusalem'. By 1839 t was already a trade agreement between France and Turkey, and C.-X. Bianchi, following his 'Complete French - Turkish Dictionary', published his guide to conversation in French and Turkish, to help both French travellers in the Levant and Turks travelling to France. Often French-made silver in the orientalist style very closely copied oriental models, and was made for exhibitions as well as for important Middle Eastern buyers. One example is the silver ewer and basin made by Marrel Frères in Paris, exhibited by them at the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. It was one of the works bought from the manufacturers by the Victoria and Albert museum for the sum of sixteen pounds. Described by the silversmiths as having been made « entirely by hand, with a chisel, after the manner of the Arabs », it was considered as vastly inferior to the Islamic prototypes. Nonetheless Marrel won a Council Medal for their display in the 1851 exhibition. They had earlier won a gold medal at the Paris 1839 exhibition National de l'Industrie , and were suppliers to the French Emperor and Empress. It is very close in design to that in the photograph by Lékégian. Such ewers and basins were used to pour water for the washing of hands before a meal.All the important Parisian silversmiths made silver in the oientalist style. Charles Nicholas Odiot, perhaps better known for his neo-classical designs, exhibited an orientalist coffee pot, designed by the sculptor and artist Paul Edouard Récipon, in the 1851 exhibition in London, which was described in the Art-Journal catalogue, with typical English understatement, as a 'coffee-pot, of very elegant form and ornamentation.' It was exhibited again in London in 1862, and elicited the greatest flattery. While the engraving on Christofle's similarly elongated form is described as being 'excecuted with great delicacy in the Renaissance style (sic). Fannière Frères also produced work in this style, of the greatest sophisticationArticle Find on about Orientiste French Silver YOU WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO HAVE THIS POT IN YOUR HANDS. SHIPPING COST : Usa : 40$ Japan : 60$ Europe :20$ MyStoreMaps Counter: Add a Map to Your eBay Listing... read more

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