Antique Philbert of Paris Copper Opera Pan

A beautiful antique circa late 1800s French copper saute or sauce pan with iron handle, completely restored with new hand applied tin. Stamped with the mark of PHILBERT of Paris, also stamped “Opera.”

In great condition, lots and lots of signs of age and use from a commercial kitchen, many small marks and bumps but no big dents. The rim is a bit out of round when looking straight down into the pan. It sits flat on our gas range, but there might be a slight wobble on an extremely flat cooking surface such as glass. This pan does have an old brass repair towards the front that looks great from the outside but it was a little sloppy inside, and a very significant dent in the center that was hammered out about as well as it possibly could be. Both of these issues have been covered by a new extra thick layer of hand wiped tin, but they are still easy to see it when looking down into the empty pan. This pan was saved both by our copper workshop and a master coppersmith, it’s had a lot of expert care to bring it back to usable. We have two of these antique Opera pans, but they were both in awful condition when we found them and needed a lot of TLC to bring them back to useful kitchen tools that were not too hard on the eyes. They show some battle scars, but are truly beautiful pieces of 4 mm thick antique French copper.

This heavy, hotel-weight piece has 3.9-4.1mm thickness at upper rim. Measures approximately 9.5” wide across the top, 3” deep, and 20” long including handle.