Cardeilhac X Bonvallet: Superb Oblong Dish In Solid Silver With Columbine Decoration, Art Nouveau.

Superb dish with an appliqued columbine motif made by the Cardeilhac goldsmith house after a drawing by Lucien Bonvallet.

Lucien Bonvallet, born in 1861, was a student at the Ecole Nationale des Art Décoratifs. He initially worked as a designer and then collaborated with ceramists and glassmakers such as Pierre Adrien Dalpayrat and Emile Gallé, for whom he made silver mounts. He also worked with the goldsmith house Cardeilhac for whom he designed pieces that are true masterpieces of Art Nouveau goldsmithing, now preserved in museums such as the MAD in Paris, which allowed the goldsmith to win numerous prizes at the Universal Exhibition of 1900.
From 1902, he emancipated himself by a more personal production of copperware that would establish his reputation as one of the greatest craftsmen of the Art Nouveau style.

The dish is oblong in shape, the marly is decorated with applique columbine leaves, a motif dear to Lucien Bonvallet, and embossed fold patterns bringing a suppleness, almost a fluidity, to the dish.

The distal part is very finely matted.

The dish is numbered PG (or DG) with a beautiful whiplash font, typical of the Art Nouveau period.

This Columbine motif can be found on many pieces by Lucien Bonvallet, such as the powder box kept at the Musée d’Orsay.

The dish is hallmarked:
. Minerva 1st title before 1973 for 950/°° silver
. Goldsmith’s hallmark AC with the Legion of Honor and the crescent for Amélie Cardeilhac, widow of Ernest Cardeilhac who took over the house from 1904 to 1920.
. In full “Cardeilhac // Paris”

A magnificent dish with a charming botanical decoration, emblematic of the production of the great designer Lucien Bonvallet, in association with one of the greatest French goldsmith houses.

40 cm long
26.7 cm wide

924 grams

Good condition. This is a dish that has been used, with scratches from use without any deep marks or deformation.

Hand delivery in Paris or insured Colissimo shipping.
France: €15
Europe: €20
World: €35