Pair Of Wine Carafes - Saint-louis - Model: Joseph - Period: Art Deco

Pair of Saint Louis crystal wine decanters "Joseph" model

Created in 1920, then withdrawn from the catalog in 1940, the "Joseph" model is a beautiful model in cut crystal represented many times in the catalogs of the Saint-Louis house .
(The production of the beginning of the 20th century does not bear the signature of the crystal factory).

Period: Art Deco
Circa: 1920 - 1930
Dimensions: Height: 44cm - Base diameter: 8cm
Numbered: 43

Synonymous with luxury and celebration, crystal is the result of ancestral know-how and complex and delicate manufacturing.

In France, the Saint-Louis crystal factory was founded in 1586 in Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche, in the Münzthal valley in Moselle.
At the time, it did not produce crystal strictly speaking, but glass, because crystal would not be discovered in France until 1781, a hundred years after the English, at the time the sole guardians of the secret of lead crystal.

In 1767, it obtained the title of Verrerie Royale de Saint-Louis by order of King Louis XV, and developed to become a flagship of the French economy.

Discovering the composition of crystal by Mr. de Beaufort, its former director, and becomes the Saint-Louis crystal factory. From 1825, it abandoned glass to focus only on the manufacture of crystal, which it supplied directly to the crown.

It is in this manufacture in particular that the notion of Tableware was introduced, that is to say the use of several different glasses according to their use.
Today, the Saint-Louis crystal factory is owned by the Hermès group, one of the leaders in French luxury.