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Cristalleries de Baccarat

A crystal works in the Lorraine village of Baccarat, dated to 1764; among its perfume bottles are Guerlain’s for L’Heure Bleue (1912) and Shalimar.

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By its notice of 1925 its works at Rambervillers made nothing but perfume bottles.

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Name
Cristalleries de Baccarat
documented

Cristalleries de Baccarat forme internationale

BNF-BACCARAT · Bibliothèque nationale de France · read 2026-10-08

confidence A

Kind
glassmaker
house classification

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the grouping on /houses: what the firm was chiefly known for in the sources read

confidence B

Founded
1764 (year)
documented

Naissance : 1764

BNF-BACCARAT · Bibliothèque nationale de France · read 2026-10-08
AIC-1 · Art Institute of Chicago public API, artwork records read 2026-09-30 · read 2026-09-30
BACCARAT-HISTORY · Baccarat · read 2026-10-08

confidence A

Founders
not on record
Places
  • Baccarat, Lorraine (works)
    documented

    Baccarat was born in 1764, in the Eastern French village that bears its name.

    BACCARAT-HISTORY · Baccarat · read 2026-10-08

    confidence B

  • Rambervillers, a works given over to perfume bottles (1925) (works)
    documented

    L’usine de Rambervillers est exclusivement aflfectée à cette fabrication spéciale

    PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation · read 2026-10-08

    “cette fabrication spéciale” is the crystal perfume bottle of the sentence before; “aflfectée” as the OCR reads

    confidence B

Documented work
  • Perfume Bottle with Stopper · a perfume bottle with stopper, late 19th century, at the Art Institute of Chicago
    documented

    Baccarat Glassworks (Cristalleries de Baccarat)

    AIC-1 · Art Institute of Chicago public API, artwork records read 2026-09-30 · read 2026-09-30

    confidence A

  • L'Heure Bleue · its bottle, designed by Georges Chevalier for Baccarat in 1912
    documented

    designed by Georges Chevalier for Baccarat in 1912

    LVMH-HEUREBLEUE · LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton · read 2026-10-08

    confidence B

  • Shalimar · its crystal bottle
    documented

    sealed in its luxurious Baccarat crystal bottle: Shalimar

    LVMH-GUERLAIN · LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton · read 2026-10-08

    confidence B

  • the bottles of Jean Patou’s perfumes, by Patou’s own account
    documented

    in collaboration with Baccarat and Van Cleef who designed the bottles

    PATOU-HISTORY · Patou · read 2026-10-08

    confidence B

Today
an active company with its head office at Baccarat (French register) (checked 2026-10-08)
documented

etat_administratif: A

REG-BACCARAT · Insee and DINUM · read 2026-10-08

confidence A

Wikidata
Q788088
documented

"qid": "Q788088"

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Baccarat)

confidence A

Where the sources disagree
  • The founding year: 1764 for the BnF, the Art Institute of Chicago and the firm itself; 1765 in the firm’s notice of 1925. (BNF-BACCARAT, PFAP-1925)

Sources

  1. AIC-1 · Art Institute of Chicago public API, artwork records read 2026-09-30. api.artic.edu/docs/ · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 (the data; the description field, CC BY 4.0, is not used)
  2. BACCARAT-HISTORY · Baccarat. “History — World of Baccarat”, the company’s own account. www.baccarat.com/int_en/world-of-baccarat/the-hi… · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (all rights reserved) (quoted, not reproduced)
  3. BNF-BACCARAT · Bibliothèque nationale de France. Authority record ark:/12148/cb12008151j: Cristalleries de Baccarat. catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12008151j · read 2026-10-08 · Licence Ouverte de l'État (Etalab) — BnF descriptive and authority metadata
  4. LVMH-GUERLAIN · LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. “Guerlain - LVMH (Maison page)”, the company’s own account. www.lvmh.com/en/our-maisons/perfumes-cosmetics/g… · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (all rights reserved; consultation and personal use only) (quoted, not reproduced)
  5. LVMH-HEUREBLEUE · LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. “Guerlain revisits an icon: L’Heure Bleue - LVMH (news)”, the company’s own account. www.lvmh.com/en/news-lvmh/guerlain-revisits-an-i… · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (all rights reserved; consultation and personal use only) (quoted, not reproduced)
  6. PATOU-HISTORY · Patou. “The Story of the Maison — Patou”, the company’s own account. patou.com/pages/history-jean-patou · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (quoted, not reproduced)
  7. PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation. Paris: La Revue des marques de la parfumerie et de la savonnerie, 1925 (the houses’ own notices, with essays on the trade). Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé (Paris) copy, Internet Archive item BIUSante_pharma_res008536. archive.org/details/BIUSante_pharma_res008536 · read 2026-10-08 · Licence ouverte / Open licence Etalab (the rights statement of the BIU Santé digitisation, as the Internet Archive item states it)
  8. REG-BACCARAT · Insee and DINUM. The Sirene company register, read through the Annuaire des Entreprises API (recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr): BACCARAT, SIREN 760800060. recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/search?q=76080… · read 2026-10-08 · Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab), as stated on the API page at data.gouv.fr
  9. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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this record as data: /data/house/baccarat.json · version 1 · updated 2026-10-08 · confidence B