Émile Froment-Meurice
Émile Froment-Meurice: SILVER COFFEE AND TEA ...

Émile Froment-Meurice: SILVER COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE IN ORIENTAL STYLE
SILVER COFFEE AND TEA SERVICE IN ORIENTAL STYLE.

Froment-Meurice, Émile. Paris.

Date: 1866/67.
Technique: Silver, two times with inner-gilding.
Description: Consisting of coffee and tea pot, milk jug, sugar bowl and hot water pot on Rechaud.
On flat base conical body with curved pipe spout. Double handle with trompe-l'oeil basket weave decor. Domed hinged lid with applied palmettes ornamentation and cone finial. Sides with geometric decor in relief. The original wooden box lined with leather. On it the company signet: Froment Meurice 372 rue St. Honoré.
Weight: Ca. 4301g.
Measurement: Height of the pots 23,5 /15,5 /35cm.
Mark: Paris guarantee of 950 standard silver (Rosenberg no.5880), maker's mark Froment Meurice (Émile Froment-Meurice, since ca. 1840), workshop mark Froment-Meurice.

Literature:
Exhib. cat.: Trésors d'Argent, Les Froment-Meurice, Paris 2003.

François-Désiré and his son Émile Froment-Meurice were among the most outstanding Parisian silversmiths and jewellers during the Restoration and Second Empire. Their work was not only celebrated at world exhibitions, but also highly valued at the royal courts of Europe. Thus, not only the famous toilet set of the Duchess of Parma, but also, for example, a cradle for the first-born son of Napoleon Bonaparte, presented as a gift from the city of Paris, came from the workshop of Froment-Meurice (Les Froment-Meurice p.47ff and p.98).

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