A GROUP OF SILVER-PLATED AND PORCELAIN TABLE ARTICLES, for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, comprising a Christofle silver-plated creamer, designed by Luc Lanel for the S.S. "Normandie", circa 1934, cylindrical with a curved handle; four butter dishes, each of scalloped shell form, inscribed with the CGT monogram, two stamped CHRISTOFLE; and a Limoges porcelain vegetable dish, designed by Suzanne Lalique, oval, decorated with a parcel-silvered double band and the CGT monogram, printed with the firm's mark, THEODORE HAVILAND LIMOGES FRANCE and Decor de Suzanne Lalique--8 7/8in. (22.5cm.) diameter of vegetable dish (6)

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A GROUP OF SILVER-PLATED AND PORCELAIN TABLE ARTICLES, for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, comprising a Christofle silver-plated creamer, designed by Luc Lanel for the S.S. "Normandie", circa 1934, cylindrical with a curved handle; four butter dishes, each of scalloped shell form, inscribed with the CGT monogram, two stamped CHRISTOFLE; and a Limoges porcelain vegetable dish, designed by Suzanne Lalique, oval, decorated with a parcel-silvered double band and the CGT monogram, printed with the firm's mark, THEODORE HAVILAND LIMOGES FRANCE and Decor de Suzanne Lalique--8 7/8in. (22.5cm.) diameter of vegetable dish (6)

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cf. Louis-René Vian, Art Décoratifs Á Bord Des Paquebots Français, Éditions Fonmare, Paris, 1994, p. 251 for an illustration of an example of the Suzanne Lalique vegetable dish

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