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A. Giroux Table mirror attributed to A. Giroux France Circa...

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A. Giroux Table mirror attributed to A. Giroux France Circa 1880 Gilt bronze, champlevé enamel Height: 26 cm; Width: 20 cm Charming oval-shaped table mirror in gilt bronze. Decorated around the rim with a polychrome champlevé enamel floral motif and fine ormolu ornamentation of putti, palms and garlands of flowers. Biography : Alphonse Giroux et Cie, a famous store selling tableware and curiosities located at 7 rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré in Paris, whose activities spanned the period from the Consulate to the end of the Second Empire. The company was founded by François-Simon-Alphonse, then managed from 1838 by his two sons Alphonse-Gustave (1810-1886) and André (1801-1879). In 1834, Giroux won a silver medal at the Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie, specializing in the manufacture of refined objects. Louis XVIII, then Charles X, purchased gifts from Giroux for the "Enfants de France". Gradually producing small pieces of furniture, they appeared for the first time in 1837 under the heading "Ebénistes" in the Almanach de Paris. However, it was Alphonse-Gustave who really expanded their business, as evidenced by the jury's report on the 1839 Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie, awarding him a Silver Medal. At the time, it ranked 1st among luxury shops. A. Giroux took part in the Exposition Universelle de Paris in 1855, where he presented a lindenwood day-happy, carved with a luxuriant naturalist décor, which Empress Eugénie purchased for her palace in Compiègne. A. In 1857, Giroux moved his store to 43, bld des Capucines, where he remained until 1867, when he sold his house and sign to Ferdinand Duvinage and Harinkouck. Influenced by Japonism, which was in vogue in France in the 1870s, Giroux offered luxurious Japanese-style furniture and decorative objects decorated with a mosaic of ivory and various woods with metal partitions, a new technique patented in 1877 by the widow F. Duvinage. Giroux ceased trading in 1885.

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