FOR FÉRDÉRIC BOUCHERON, PARIS, FRANCE, CIRCA 1880

This fine ewer and plate appear in the Boucheron Archives and were made for Frédéric Boucheron in 1879. The piece illustrated in David Allan, Orfèvrerie Française orientaliste du 19eme siècle, 2003, p.22 has an identical decoration to the present piece. Paul Legrand executed the design and Charles Glachant was the silversmith. A similar ewer was presented at the Great Exhibition of 1882 in Lille but the form appears to have been employed in France as early as 1845 by Jules Peyre, sometime director of design at the Sèvres porcelain manufactory. This model was sold by the firm in 1880 to the Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia for or a discussion on this ewer and other examples, see Allan, 2003, pp. 21-22, 36.

Another Boucheron ewer in the Islamic style sold at Christie’s, New York, 22 October 2009, lot 77.