D for Dinanderie

Dinanderie refers to ordinary as well as luxury items made of copper and brass. Since the Middle Ages, the word has encompassed tableware, cookware and many other everyday objects. Claudius Linossier (1893–1953), ovoid vase with a light base and wide annular neck, decorated with a “frieze of spirals and a frieze of triple chevrons”, hammered copper proof, signed under the base, 21 cm/8.26 in.Lyon, January 17, 2021, Bremens-Belleville OVV.Result: €28,750 Since the fourth millennium BCE, copper, the oldest metal used by man, has been worked and considered a guarantee of prosperity for the areas lucky enough to possess it. However, copper