Late 19th Century French Copper Pots With Iron Handles - Set of 8

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The loop-end iron handles are the tell. This is not decorative copper — these are professional French kitchen pots built … Read more The loop-end iron handles are the tell. This is not decorative copper — these are professional French kitchen pots built for a serious cook in a serious kitchen.

Eight pieces ranging from a tiny sauce ladle to a generous sauté pan make up a complete French batterie de cuisine. Having the full graduated range intact is significantly rarer than finding individual pieces — and finding them unaltered, in original condition, with the tin lining still present is rarer still. Nothing has been re-tinned, re-polished, or restored. What you see is exactly what a century of professional kitchen use produces — and it is better for it.

The copper exterior has aged to the deep warm tones that no polishing can produce and no reproduction can replicate. The tin lining is worn and patinated in exactly the way that confirms genuine use over decades.

Display them on a pot rack above a kitchen island. Hang them from a ceiling hook in a farmhouse kitchen. Arrange them on an open shelf where the graduated sizes read as sculpture. Or cook with them if you know your tin lining — these were built for exactly that.

Sold as a complete set of eight. Unaltered from original state.

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