Silvered Metal Vase Gio Ponti for Christofle 1950’s. Five varying size tubular columns. Stamped maker’s mark Christofle France Coll Gallia to one of the tubes. Designed by Gio Ponti for Christofle, Collection Gallia, French, circa 1950. Literature: Gio Ponti, The Complete Work 1923-1978, by Lisa Licitra Ponti, 1990, p185. Height: 12 7/8 inches.
1950’s Christofle Gio Ponti Vase
by Louis Wine€1,650
Silvered Metal Vase Gio Ponti for Christofle 1950’s. Five varying size tubular columns. Stamped maker’s mark Christofle France Coll Gallia to one of the tubes. Designed by Gio Ponti for Christofle, Collection Gallia, French, circa 1950. Literature: Gio Ponti, The Complete Work 1923-1978, by Lisa Licitra Ponti, 1990, p185. Height: 12 7/8 inches.
Louis Wine
Louis Wine Ltd., Toronto specialists in Antique Silver , Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts, are a 4th generation family business.Louis Wine (1865-1946) founded the company in Dublin, Ireland in 1880. Louis Wine began selling to silver collectors in Dublin from a shop in historic Wellington Quay. In 1908, he located on Dublin's fashionable Grafton Street. To the firm came the worlds leading Georgian Silver collectors. Pieces by Paul de Lamerie, Paul Storr, Hester Bateman and Irish Georgian Silver were constantly on display. Our gallery run by Richard (Louis Wine's great grandson) at 150 Cumberland Street (Yorkville), Toronto, displays a range of fine Antique Silver, Old Sheffield Plate, Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts from the 18th-20th century, including Bateman, Storr, Ramsden, Tiffany, Knox, Liberty, Jensen, Christopher Dresser.
