Musée Bouilhet-Christofle was a French private museum located in the 8th arrondissement at 9,

rue Royale, Paris The rue Royale () is a short street in Paris, France, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place de la Madeleine (site of the Church of the Madeleine). The rue Royale is in the city's 8th arrondissement. Among the well-known addres ...

, France. The museum's main collection was located in a Parisian suburb at 112, rue Ambroise Croizat, Saint-Denis, France. The museum closed in 2008. It was one of two museums of the Christofle company, along with the museum in Saint-Denis, which closed the same year. Maison Christofle was founded in 1830 by Charles Christofle (1805–1863), becoming silversmith to Emperor

Napoleon III Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew ...

and one of the major silversmiths in nineteenth-century France. The museum contained more than 2,000 items of silver plate and cutlery, reflecting the company's history from its founding to recent times. The museum displayed examples of naturalism, Orientalism,

Japonism ''Japonisme'' is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858. Japo ...

, Art Nouveau, items produced for the universal expositions,

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

and other styles. In addition, it documented a wide range of techniques, including electroplating and

enameling Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between . The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating. The word comes from the Latin ...

. The museum also contained displays about the history of silver production, table settings and table manners.

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Christofle (includes description of the Musée Bouilhet-Christofle)
* ''Paris Visites'', Petit Futé, 2007, page 46. .
The Silver Bulletin: French Orientalist Silver of the Nineteenth‑Century

Tourisme93 description (French)
Defunct art museums and galleries in Paris Decorative arts museums in France Defunct museums in Paris 2008 disestablishments in France Art museums disestablished in 2008 {{France-museum-stub

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