A pair of fine French silver-gilt mounted cut-glass butter dishes

MAKER'S MARK OF JEAN-CHARLES CAHIER, PARIS, 1819-1838

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A pair of fine French silver-gilt mounted cut-glass butter dishes
Maker's mark of Jean-Charles Cahier, Paris, 1819-1838
Oval, each on four winged horse's head and hoof feet linked by incurved guilloche stretcher, the border chased with guilloche and water-leaves, each with cut-glass oval dish, marked on stretcher and border
27.5 cm. (10¾ in.) long
1,540 gr. (49 oz.) (2)

Lot Essay

A similar pair of silver-gilt mounted glass butter-dishes on winged female bust feet by Biennais, circa 1809-1810, formed part of a magnificent tea-service made for the Emperor Napoléon. These are now in the Louvre Museum, Paris. (see A.-M. Nisbet and V.-A. Massena L'Empire à table, Paris, 1988, illustrated p. 187.)

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