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Thomas-Joseph Armand-Calliat, born the 24 of october 1822, in Les Abrets and die in Lyon the 29 november 1901 (79 years old), was a french goldsmith.

Thomas-Joseph Armand married one of the daughters of François Caillat, a Burgundy goldsmith based in Lyon, taking over the business in 1853 with his wife and his sister-in-law and took the name of Armand-Calliat. He abandons the grosserie for religious goldsmithing. Thanks to Armand-Calliat, the house knows a considerable boom: it passes from 12 workers in 1854 to 40 in 1885.

The career of Thomas Joseph Armand-Calliat can be divided into three different type. First, from 1853 to 1858, he is marked by the neogothic art style. Then, when he met Pierre Bossan, the future architect of Fourvière, in 1858, he turns to symbolism. Finally from 1888 to his death in 1901, faithful to the lessons of Bossan and thanks to his collaboration with his son, who joined him in 1891, Armand-Calliat seeks a new art including the use of ivory translucent enamels. The metal is worked without electric turning, welding and stamping machines, the results are very varied pieces of enamels. But the great originality of Armand Caillat's work is its spiritual aim, he wanted to pass a Christian message. The object then becomes centered around faith, with scenes, inscriptions, colors, shapes or even gems.

He is the only goldsmith in Lyon who succeeded in Paris. He refuses the commercial obligations to focus on a manual exercice of his work. However, he does not get rich, and many of his works or his archives were abandoned until 1982. At his death in 1901, he transmits the factory to his son, Joseph, who will sell it in 1924 to Amédée Cateland.

The goldsmith Armand-Calliat was awarded at the London Universal Exhibition in 1862 and those of Paris in 1867, 1878, 1889 and 1900. Also, he published three plates on the occasion of the Universal Exhibitions of 1867, 1878 and 1889. In forty-eight years of career, he creates about 5000 prestigious pieces, mostly for the great French shrines like Lourdes, La Salette or Fourvière, but also for monasteries and especially for the abbey Saint-Pierre de Solesmes. He also created original works for Popes Pius IX and Leo XIII. Today, nearly 1,000 drawings from his studio are kept at the Musée de Fourvière in Lyon. Thomas-Joseph Armand-Calliat realizes in Lyon the following goldsmith work :


 * Chalice of the Chanoine Didelot in gilded silver, enamels, diamonds and glasswork, according to a drawing of Pierre Bossan, around 1860, monastery of the Visitation Sainte-Marie, Moulins.


 * Neo-Gothic chalice, watercolor drawing, around 1860, museum Fourvière, Lyon.


 * Chalice of Cardinal Mermillod, watercolor drawing, 1864, Fourviere Museum, Lyon.


 * Monseigneur Odon Thibaudier's Crosse, 1867, Fourvière Museum, Lyon.


 * Good Shepherd's Crosse, watercolor drawing, int the bottom left there is drawn in pencil, capital letters : Pierre Bossan, 1867-1875, Fourvière Museum, Lyon.


 * Good Shepherd's Crosse in gilded silver, enamels, amethysts and pearls, 1867-1875, exhibited at the Paris Universal Exhibitions in 1867 and 1878, Museum of Beaux-Arts, Lyon.


 * Monstrance in gilded copper, brass and amethysts, with an inscription under the foot: DON DE M.MONTAGNIEU CURE DE CHASSELAY, 1869, Chasselay.


 * Neo-Gothic chalice project, watercolor drawing enhanced with gold, around 1870, Fourvière Museum, Lyon.


 * Candlestick in silver gilt, enamels, lapis lazuli, gems and pearls, 1875, exhibited during the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1878, Museum of Beaux-Arts, Lyon.


 * Rosary gilded bronze and enamels, 1875, offered by affiliates at Notre-Dame de Fourviere, museum Fourviere, Lyon.


 * Chalice of Fourviere, according to a drawing of Pierre Bossan, 1875, Fourvière Museum, Lyon.


 * Ciboire de Fourvière where Pontic, Alexandre de Lyon and Irenee of Lyon are represented, 1876, Fourvière Museum, Lyon.


 * Binding of the Ineffabilis Deus offered to Pius IX for his Jubilee, 1876, Apostolic Library, Vatican.


 * Reliquary bust of Casarie, 1876, Notre-Dame church, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.


 * Monseigneur Theuret's basin in silver and enamels, around 1878, Notre-Dame-Immaculée cathedral, Monaco.


 * Monstrance of the Epiphany for the Basilica of Fourviere, 1878, Fourvière Museum, Lyon.


 * Reliquary of the Saint Épine (Holy Thorn) of the Enamelled and Gilded Bronze Crown of Christ, 1880, listed as a Historic Monument in 1977, in the chapel of the Notre-Dame de Saint-Étienne church.


 * Paten of cardinal Caverot, 1881, Fourvière Museum, Lyon.


 * Chalice of cardinal Caverot, 1881, Fourvière Museum, Lyon.


 * Jubilee chapel in silver and enamels, 1884, offered to the prelate by the priests of the diocese of Moulins, for his Jubilee priesthood in 1884.


 * Chasse (casket) of  Saint Anthelme, reliquary, 1889, cathedral Saint-Jean, Belley.


 * Cardinal Foulon's jubilee's Crosse in gilded silver and enamels, 1891, Fourvière Museum, Lyon.


 * Silver baptismal shell, around 1900, Musée des Hospices Civiles, Lyon.


 * Crosse of the Abbot of Farnborough, late XIX, Fourvière Museum, Lyon.


 * Monstrance in gilded silver and enamel, last third of the XIX, object registered in the Supplementary Inventory of Historical Monuments on August 21, 1987, church Saint Prix, Chaponost.


 * Monstrances of the Church of the Immaculate Conception of Lyon and Saint-Martin d'Ainay.
 * Chasse of Saint Just's chef (1869), church Saint-Just, Lyon.

Thomas-Joseph Armand-Calliat was knighted the Legion of Honor on September 1, 1869 and promoted to the officer May 7, 1895.


 * Thomas-Joseph Armand Caillat (1822-1901), Author of the text, L'Orfèvrerie religieux Lyonnaise, at the Exhibition of 1867. Exhibition of M. Armand-Calliat, January 1, 1867


 * Bernard Berthod and Jean Comby, Histoire de l’Eglise de Lyon, editions La Taillanderie, p. 143


 * Bernard Berthod, Bossan et Armand-Calliat, Lyon, 1986, p. 57.58


 * Bernard Berthod and Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier, Dictionnaire des Arts liturgiques XIXe et XXe siècles, éditions de l’amateur, 1996, p. 80


 * René Mornex, Bernard Ducouret and Olivier Faure, L'Antiquaille de Lyon, Histoire d’un hôpital, a book produced for the bicentennial celebration of the Civil Hospitals of Lyon, produced in collaboration with the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs and the City from Lyon, p. 134


 * Gérard Picaud and Jean Foisselon, Splendeurs dévoilées, Cinq siècles d’art à la Visitation, Somogy, editions d’art, ordered by the visitation museum, 2001, p. 73


 * Pierres et ors, trésor liturgique de la cathédrale de Moulins, Art et Foi, published by Allier's department council, editions du Signe, p. 54 à 60.


 * Préinventaire des monuments et richesses artistiques, Chasselay, Rhône department, 2002, p. 109