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20TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF FRENCH SILVER-GILT SALT CELLARS
20TH CENTURY
Each set on a rectangular base with four winged sphinx feet, the border applied with scrolling foliage, with a central standard with urn finial flanked by two female figures in classical garb, each holding a basin for salt, with two serpent handles, each marked with spurious marks of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Paris, 1809-1819
12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) high; 119 oz. (3,714 gr.) (2)
20TH CENTURY
Each set on a rectangular base with four winged sphinx feet, the border applied with scrolling foliage, with a central standard with urn finial flanked by two female figures in classical garb, each holding a basin for salt, with two serpent handles, each marked with spurious marks of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Paris, 1809-1819
12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) high; 119 oz. (3,714 gr.) (2)
Literature
A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Exhibition catalogue, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt, London, 1997, p. 120, no. 37.
Exhibited
New York, Christie's, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt from the Collection of Audrey Love, September 1997
San Marino, Huntington Art Gallery, November 1998 - January 1999
San Marino, Huntington Art Gallery, November 1998 - January 1999