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doobees Posts: 277 Registered: Jan 2003	posted 06-12-2003 01:10 PM [01-1121] Hi all, I was wondering if you knew how I could ID this wonderful piece that I found. It's about 3 feet tall, very heavy and quite ornate. I'm just guessing, but I think it was made for L'Exposition Universelles de Vienne in 1873. It appears to be some sort of water fountain... a heater or server. The piece appears to have been sculpted by Eudes and chiseled by Lepr�te. Any thoughts on this? Anyone know how I can tell for sure? (The maker's mark looks a lot like Christofle's!) Any help would be appreciated... ------------------ Suzanne D IP: Logged
doobees Posts: 277 Registered: Jan 2003	posted 06-14-2003 03:50 AM Did nobody think this piece was beyond incredible? (or the post at least funny...) ------------------ Suzanne D IP: Logged
vathek Posts: 966 Registered: Jun 99	posted 06-14-2003 06:45 AM Looks pretty much like a tea server. It would have had a way to put a hot slug of metal in a compartment to keep the contents warm. May I ask where you shop? I'd like to find one too. IP: Logged
Stephen Posts: 625 Registered: Jan 2003	posted 06-14-2003 05:01 PM I'd help you, but the dog ate my exposition catalog. IP: Logged
adelapt Posts: 418 Registered: May 2003	posted 06-15-2003 06:29 AM If no apparatus for heating, how about it being a water fountain. It look brilliant. IP: Logged
Hoover Posts: 14 Registered: Feb 2003	posted 06-15-2003 07:19 PM Ahhhh ... Thanks - I needed that! It did have an appparatus for heating, or at least keeping water hot, but I did not key in on the technology - just the workmanship. The Christofle museum was so amazing. It incresed my interest a hundred fold and that's sayin' a lot. I had to take a photo of this one and share it! ------------------ IP: Logged
Kimo Posts: 1627 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 06-19-2003 02:32 PM Hi Suzanne. It sure looks like it must have taken one heck of a lot of work and metal to make which makes your thought of it being an exposition piece a good idea. I'm not sure there would have been much of a market for things of that size and complexity other than perhaps a major hotel or restaurant in a large city, or possibly a wealthy family or two somewhere. I guess the only way to tell would be to try to find it in one of the old exposition catalogs or in the records of the company that made it (is it really a Christofle?). There were a number of those kinds of expositions that French companies sent their wares to over the years back then. There must be a collection of those old exposition catalogs at some library there in Paris. The alternative would be to try to contact Mr. Peabody and ask him to use his Wayback Machine. Kimo IP: Logged
Hoover Posts: 14 Registered: Feb 2003	posted 06-20-2003 02:35 PM It was for sure for the expo... I know because I read it off the plaque at the bottom there. I saw this the day that I spent at Christofle. Just wanted to share the excitement with someone! ------------------ IP: Logged
T-Bird-Art Posts: 143 Registered: Mar 2000	posted 06-22-2003 06:26 PM Pretty much looks like L"Hernia Server to me. IP: Logged

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