Live Auction 1458The C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love Collection: Magnificent
A FRENCH EMPIRE SILVER-GILT SWEETMEAT DISH
Lot 177

A FRENCH EMPIRE SILVER-GILT SWEETMEAT DISH

MARK OF JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE ODIOT, PARIS, 1809-1819

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A FRENCH EMPIRE SILVER-GILT SWEETMEAT DISH
MARK OF JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE ODIOT, PARIS, 1809-1819
Circular, on square base with paw feet, a kneeling putto supporting a basket-weave bowl with pierced band, the detachable liner with butterfly handles, marked under base and bowl and reverse of liner
5¼ in. (13.5 cm.) high; 14 oz. 10 dwt. (462 gr.)

Specialist note

A number of small detachable dishes on stands with butterfly handles by Odiot are recorded. Each has a stand formed as a satyr supporting a bowl formed as a woman's breast, said to have been modelled after Napoleon's sister, Pauline Borghese, who was affectionately known as "the butterfly."