A Forty-Eight Piece hand-engraved Crystal Table Service

ARMAND-ALBERT RATEAU

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A Forty-Eight Piece hand-engraved Crystal Table Service
Armand-Albert Rateau
Comprising: 2 Decanters, 12 champagne glasses, 12 white wine glasses, 12 red wine glasses, 12 water glasses
Each with hand-engraved stylised motif
12½in. (32cm.) height of decanters (48)

Provenance

Anne-Sophie Duval, Paris

Lot Essay

Cf: Olivier-Vial and F. Rateau, Armand Albert Rateau, Edition de l'Amateur, Paris, 1992, p. 186/7

These glasses were used by Rateau in his own house at 17, quai de Conti and they are pictured there (see above) in the interior of the dining room.

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