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MAKER'S MARK OF JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE ODIOT, PARIS, CIRCA 1818, AFTER A DESIGN BY ADRIEN-LOUISE-MARIE CAVELIER, THE ARMS ENGRAVED CIRCA 1863
Details
A set of four French Empire silver-gilt coasters from the Demidoff service
Maker's mark of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Paris, circa 1818, after a design by Adrien-Louise-Marie Cavelier, the arms engraved circa 1863
Circular, each on corded rim foot, the sides cast and chased with openwork fruiting vine, with fluted everted rim, the centres each later engraved with a coat-of-arms, each marked on reverse
5¼in. (13.2cm.) diam.
32ozs. (1,006gr.) (4)
Maker's mark of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Paris, circa 1818, after a design by Adrien-Louise-Marie Cavelier, the arms engraved circa 1863
Circular, each on corded rim foot, the sides cast and chased with openwork fruiting vine, with fluted everted rim, the centres each later engraved with a coat-of-arms, each marked on reverse
5¼in. (13.2cm.) diam.
32ozs. (1,006gr.) (4)
Provenance
Four of sixteen supplied to Count Nikolai Demidoff (1773-1828) by Odiot and listed in their account dated 5 December 1817, as 16 porte bouteilles Cislés des deux Côtés id (comme dessin) at a cost of 1,200 francs., and thence by descent to his son
Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870), until probably circa 1863
With Charles Frederick Hancock, London, 1863
Count Alfred de la Chapelle, Seigneur of Morton and Beaulieu, Perigord (1830-1914)
An English Gentleman of Title, the Anderson Galleries, New York, 15 December 1928 lot 15-22 (the 16 sold in pairs)
Anna Thomson Dodge; Christie's London, June 23, 1971 lot 56
Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870), until probably circa 1863
With Charles Frederick Hancock, London, 1863
Count Alfred de la Chapelle, Seigneur of Morton and Beaulieu, Perigord (1830-1914)
An English Gentleman of Title, the Anderson Galleries, New York, 15 December 1928 lot 15-22 (the 16 sold in pairs)
Anna Thomson Dodge; Christie's London, June 23, 1971 lot 56
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