Ancien mode seau à glace à champagne Piper-Heidsieck

Vintage Champagne Ice Bucket from the Piper-Heidsieck Estate

Art Deco enamel champagne bucket produced by ARGIT of France for the Taittinger estate. Green vitreous enamel nameplate to the front with embossed label to the rear. Enamel still intact and in excellent condition. Handles depict vine leaves and grapes. Internals in good condition with no holes, and shows patina consistent with light oxidisation and general usage. Polishes up beautifully.

Piper-Heidsiecks history begins in 1785 with Florens-Louis Heidsieck, who founded the trading house of drapes and Champagne wines, Heidsieck & Cie. He became a master of his craft to the point of having the honor of personally presenting his wine to Queen Marie-Antoinette.

Upon Florens-Louiss death in 1828, his nephew Christian Heidsieck partnered with Henri-Guillaume Piper who used his good sense of commerce. From the Habsburg princes to the emperors of China, fourteen royal or imperial courts granted him the privilege of "patented supplier." Around the world, high society desired "the wine of Piper, crafted by Heidsieck." In 1835, Christian Heidsieck died, and in 1838, his mode wife remarried Henri-Guillaume Piper. The name Piper-Heidsieck was born.

To celebrate Piper-Heidsiecks centennial and the distinction of its wines, Pierre-Karl Fabergé, court jeweller to Russian Tsar Alexander III and the Imperial Romanov household, designed an opulent jewelled bottle, adorned with gold, diamonds, and lapis lazuli.

In 1933, Piper-Heidsieck was the first Champagne house to appear on the big screen in the film "Sons of the Desert" by Laurel and Hardy. This connection with cinema continued in 1953 when Marilyn Monroe expressed her affection for the brand in a press interview and was even rumoured to have kept a months supply of champagne in her kitchen.