Muselet Cup Parisien Coutelier Jules Piault

Muselet cup with curved blade, silver metal ferrule and blackened wood handle of the Jules Piault cutter, active under Napoléon III at 43 boulevard de Sébastopol in Paris. To understand this object, it should be known that the bottles of champagne did not look like at the end of the XVIIIth under the instigation of the English merchants importers of sparkling wines; The cork of the Iberian Peninsula provides the cork, able to withstand 5kg of pressure cm2 and Adolphe Jacquesson who perfected the string responsible for holding the cork in place and it is the release of this link that justifies the creation muselet cup. This copy has a shell harmoniously decorated with a garland of leaves adorning a capital; the curved blade is double-edged and the wooden handle of the islands blackened with ivory black; The mark of the cutler is on the arched part. Copy in beautiful condition of an end of feast accessory on the fabulous tables of the mid-nineteenth century.