Lot Essay
A dessert service in the same pattern also retailed by Odiot, was sold in these Rooms April 11, 1995, lot 159.
Details
A FRENCH SILVER-GILT DESSERT SERVICE
PARIS, CIRCA 1860, DESSERT SPOONS FORKS AND SERVERS MAKER'S MARK OF PUIFORCAT; KNIVES MAKER'S MARK OF EDOUARD CORVASIER, RETAILED BY ODIOT
In Louis XVI style, the reeded handles with bellflowers and an anthemion within laurel wreath stem, the reverse engraved with a monogram, each marked, the knife blades marked ODIOT, comprising:
Eighteen dessert spoons
Eighteen dessert forks
Two berry spoons
A sugar sifter
(82oz., 2556gr.)
Eighteen dessert knives with silver-gilt blades
Eighteen dessert knives with steel blades
in original fitted leather case with Odiot label (75)
PARIS, CIRCA 1860, DESSERT SPOONS FORKS AND SERVERS MAKER'S MARK OF PUIFORCAT; KNIVES MAKER'S MARK OF EDOUARD CORVASIER, RETAILED BY ODIOT
In Louis XVI style, the reeded handles with bellflowers and an anthemion within laurel wreath stem, the reverse engraved with a monogram, each marked, the knife blades marked ODIOT, comprising:
Eighteen dessert spoons
Eighteen dessert forks
Two berry spoons
A sugar sifter
(82oz., 2556gr.)
Eighteen dessert knives with silver-gilt blades
Eighteen dessert knives with steel blades
in original fitted leather case with Odiot label (75)