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'MERCURY', A FIVE-PIECE SILVER-PLATED TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
BY CHRISTOFLE
Comprising a teapot, coffee pot, creamer, covered sugar bowl and tray, each of cylindrical section with clean, geometric form, stamped with the firm's marks and CHRISTOFLE FRANCE--8 1/2in. (21.5cm.) height of coffee pot, 17in. (43.2cm.) length of tray
This model was originally designed in 1970 for the private plane of President Georges Pompidou of France.
cf. Henri Bouilhet, Christofle, Silversmith since 1830, Chêne/Hachette, Paris, 1981, p. 159, ill. 10 (5)
BY CHRISTOFLE
Comprising a teapot, coffee pot, creamer, covered sugar bowl and tray, each of cylindrical section with clean, geometric form, stamped with the firm's marks and CHRISTOFLE FRANCE--8 1/2in. (21.5cm.) height of coffee pot, 17in. (43.2cm.) length of tray
This model was originally designed in 1970 for the private plane of President Georges Pompidou of France.
cf. Henri Bouilhet, Christofle, Silversmith since 1830, Chêne/Hachette, Paris, 1981, p. 159, ill. 10 (5)