Gallery | October 1, 2021
15cm Gaillard marmite bombée, “Marilyn”This voluptuous piece is from Gaillard’s silver-plated orfèvrerie line.
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Gallery | October 1, 2021
15cm Gaillard marmite bombée, “Marilyn”This voluptuous piece is from Gaillard’s silver-plated orfèvrerie line.
Gallery | September 17, 2021
28cm overstamped mystery sautéOkay, stamp detectives, get out your magnifying glass — you’ll need it for this one.
Gallery | September 3, 2021
36cm Dehillerin stewpot “Cité Universitaire de Paris”The swing handles are just one unusual element of this pre-war stewpot.
Gallery | July 23, 2021
14cm double-stamped Vanneuss-Pommier saucepanThis little pot holds a lot of interest for me.
Gallery | June 26, 2021
15cm Van Neuss saucepan, “Leopold”Readers Martin and Nick figured out the provenance of the monogram on this little pot.
Gallery | August 16, 2020
16cm bain-marie, “Fontainebleau”There is quite a lot of story to this one little pot.
Gallery | July 24, 2020
23cm Dehillerin saucepan, “Bride of Frankenpan”This pot hasn’t just been repaired — it’s been remade.
Gallery | July 7, 2020
34cm brass-handled saucepan with helper handleHelp me get a handle on the handle on this helper-handled pot. Heh.
Gallery | July 2, 2020
20cm and 24cm Gaillard sautésThese mid-20th century Gaillard pans still have 19th-century craftsmanship.
Gallery | January 12, 2020
32cm swing-handled high-top daubièreThis antique piece is a master class in clever construction.
Gallery | January 10, 2020
58cm diamond saumonièreI suspect this unusually-shaped fish poacher was a custom-made piece.
Gallery | November 3, 2019
24cm Pommier WindsorH. Pommier is Belgian, not French, but this Windsor is every bit as beautiful as its French cousins.
Gallery | October 27, 2019
36cm rondeaux “Omnium Hotelier” and “The Bailey’s Hotel”These two pans present an opportunity to compare 19th and 20th century construction side-by-side.
Gallery | September 13, 2019
14cm Dehillerin soup pot “Hotel de Paris”This is the Jimmy Stewart of soup pots — tall and skinny and quite charming.