CHRISTOFLE & Cie - Philippe-Joseph BROCARD Four-piece water service in white enameled glass with gold highlights, silver-plated and partially gilded metal mount. Comprising a globular-bodied jug with a long cylindrical neck, a small orange blossom flask of the same shape, a campaniform-bodied sugar pot and a glass, each piece with a silvered metal foot, three of them closed with a ribbed domed lid, the sugar pot flanked by two annular handles and the jug by a large curved handle with a mascaron-shaped attachment. Each piece engraved on the base CHRISTOFLE & Cie. H. carafe: 25.5 cm; bottle: 18.5 cm; sugar pot: 15.5 cm; glass: 13 cm One lid missing, the lid of the sugar jar probably replaced. This service is similar to the "Renaissance" model created by Christofle in collaboration with Philippe-Joseph Brocard for the Vienna World's Fair of 1873, presented at the Exposition de l'Union Centrale des Arts Appliqués à l'Industrie in 1874, then at the Paris World's Fair of 1878. Turquoise enamel gave way to white enamel, floral stems to foliate scrolls, roundels with floral corollas to Grecian palm motifs. Bibliography : GAY-MAZUEL, Audrey, Christofle, une brillante histoire, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris: 2024, pp 99 and 277.