antique – Vintage French Copper

Gallery | June 30, 2020

These two pots solved a mystery for me.

Gallery | May 18, 2020

These ice cream molds are a link to a largely forgotten trade.

Gallery | April 13, 2020

The rare stamp on this sauté is the missing link for me that connects two Gaillard “product lines” at the end of the 19th century.

Gallery | April 2, 2020

This lovely cocotte has graceful touches that mark it as an antique pre-war piece.

Gallery | March 24, 2020

This little stewpot carries a very early Dehillerin stamp that I had never seen before.

Gallery | March 21, 2020

These two big pots are a master class in 19th and 20th century Gaillard coppercrafting.

Gallery | March 17, 2020

These beautiful saucepans and lids are everyday masterpieces from a lesser-known Parisian atelier.

Gallery | March 14, 2020

This pan is… strange.

Gallery | February 25, 2020

These two pans have a wonderful secret: they’re bottom-heavy.

Gallery | February 15, 2020

I think these are the work of young Jules Gaillard at the start of his forty-year career.

Gallery | February 10, 2020

Like H. Pommier himself, this saucepan has a lot of Van Neuss DNA in it.

Gallery | January 12, 2020

This antique piece is a master class in clever construction.

Mysteries | January 9, 2020

An update: Reader Arndt has helped me figure this out.

Gallery | January 8, 2020

A reader has given us an opportunity to see the work of three rare French makers side by side.

Gallery | December 13, 2019

This beautiful piece puts me in mind of the story of why I started cooking with copper.

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