Art Nouveau Silver Plated Salad Servers - "Pavot" - Boulenger & Cie - 1898-1914

Beautiful silver-plated salad servers from the Belle Époque - made by the Orfevrerie Boulenger around 1900. The pattern of this cutlery was called "Pavot" and features beautiful poppy plant decorations in the typical, naturalistic French Art Nouveau style. Exceptional, rare pieces of great beauty.

Salad spoon length: 25.7cm

Salad spoon length: 26cm

In very good condition for their age. There is some silver loss on the back of the tines of the salad fork and on the back of the rim of the spoon bowl. The rest of the pieces are in very good condition.

Marked [A*B][Boulenger] for Boulenger & Cie.

In the 19th century and at the turn of the century, Boulenger was one of the most prominent silversmiths in Paris. The company was founded in 1810 by M. Boulenger-Hautin, and for the first decades was known as Orfevrerie Hautin. When nephew Adolphe Boulenger took over management in 1864, the name changed to A. Boulenger & Cie. From its location at 4 rue de Vert-Bois in Paris, the company made a name for itself as a high-calibre Orfevre, and in time, Boulenger became a regular supplier to the French Navy. Its work has won numerous awards at trade fairs and exhibitions, including in Paris in 1925, Cairo in 1929, and Antwerp in 1930.