A very similar Coup de Mariage, sold Christie's Geneva, 15 November 1988, lot 93, and is illustrated in J-M. Pinçon and O. Gaube du Gers, Odiot, l'Orfèvre, 3 Siècles d'Histoire d'Art & de Créations, Paris, 1990, p. 90, was commissioned by Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria in 1806 to celebrate the marriage of his daughter, Augusta Amelia of Bavaria, to Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince of Eichstadt in the same year. This lot and the coupe discussed above follow a design by Cavalier which survives in the records of Maison Odiot.

The design for the Coupe is inspired by Classical iconography and styles. The lidded bowl is of krater form and is surmounted by the figure of the goddess Hebe, cupbearer of the gods, bearing a ewer on bended knee pouring wine into a tazza. The rim of the lid and the tureen are engraved with a Grecian palmette ribbon-guilloche. The handles of the bowl are formed Ceres' fruit filled cornucopiae perched on bacchic ram-masks with the bowl embellished between the handles with panels celebrating the triumph of love. Venus attended by Cupid is presented with Paris' apple while his companions celebrate with a lyre and play with Mars' helmet; the latter recalling Cupid's power and the love of Venus and Mars, recalled by Ovid in his Metamorphoses.