A PAIR OF FRENCH SILVER-GILT AND CUT-GLASS DISHES

MARK OF ODIOT, PARIS, 1819-1838

Details

A PAIR OF FRENCH SILVER-GILT AND CUT-GLASS DISHES
MARK OF ODIOT, PARIS, 1819-1838
Each shaped oval, on four paw feet, with bulrush handle and leaf-clad mount, the cut-glass dish fluted, marked on body
9 in. (22.8 cm.) long (2)

Provenance

Prince Camillo Borghese, who married Pauline Bonaparte, the sister of the Emperor Napoleon on 6 November 1803
The Borghese Palace Sale, Giacomini and Capobianchi, Rome, 28 March - 9 April 1892, part of lot 847
Don Antonio Licata
Prince Baucina
Ercole Canessa
Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, American Art Association/Anderson Galleries Inc., New York, 5 January 1934, lot 681 or 682

Exhibited

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, June 1924 - November 1932

Lot Essay

The Borghese Palace Sale in 1892 included four glass and silver-gilt shell-pattern dishes, as well as three glass and gilt-bronze epergnes and four compotiers, all by J-B-C Odiot.

For a history of the Borghese Service, see note to lot 131.

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