Monstrance Lunette Silver Vermeil Minerva Goldsmith Armand-Caillat Nineteenth Century
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Lunule with Monstrance Hosts or Monstrance, in Vermilion Silver, Minerva Mark (1st Title) and Goldsmith's Mark Thomas Joseph Armand-Calliat * (1822-1901), with beveled glasses, 19th century.
This lunula is in good general condition. Hallmarked see photos (punch of a goldsmith a little worn), re-stamped with a crab on the border.
A note: a sparkle on the edge of a glass, some micro-chips, micro-scratches and wear of time, see photos.
fascinated by the masterpieces of Byzantine art and by the neo-Gothic movement set up by Viollet-le-Duc goes to Lyon where he meets the one who will become his wife, Jeanne CALLIAT whose father has a factory of silversmithing. Attracted by everything related to the Middle Ages, he studied drawing, painting and interested in colors and enamel. Having inherited his father-in-law's goldsmith's factory, he turned to religious goldsmithing and enriched it with many pieces of sacred art. He is allied with Pierre BOSSAN, the architect of the basilicas of Fourvière and Ars. The workshop of the rise of Gourguillon in Lyon becomes world famous and takes the name of ARMAND-CALLIAT, his two sons working with him after having studied at Beaux arts in Lyon and Paris. Among many other objects and sacred vessels, we owe him the crown of the Virgin of Fourvière, the shrine of the priest of Ars, and, nearer us, the shrine of Bishop St Anthelme in the cathedral of Belley. He died in 1901, Officer of the Legion of Honor, Commander of St. Gregory the Great, Knight of the Order of St. Charles, after having been President of the Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Arts of Lyon, President of the Council of the National School of Fine Arts of Lyon and Officer of Public Instruction.
(By J.DASSONVILLE, Memoirs of the Pays du Guiers site)