Sold by Order of the Board of Trustees of THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO to benefit future acquisitions* *Lot 119 may be exempt from sales tax, as set forth in the Sales Tax Notice in the front of this catalogue.
A FRENCH SILVER-GILT PRESENTATION TRAY MAKER'S MARK OF ODIOT, PARIS, CIRCA 1865

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A FRENCH SILVER-GILT PRESENTATION TRAY MAKER'S MARK OF ODIOT, PARIS, CIRCA 1865

Shaped oblong, with ovolo and foliate rim and two panels of frolicking putti, the leaf-clad and rocaille open handles with large cast putti joins, the field engraved with band of ovolo and grapevine, and with the inscription GIVEN IN MEMORY OF Julia Spencer Field BY Spencer Eddy engraved within a rocaille cartouche, marked on reverse
length over handles 33¼in. (84.5cm.); 284oz. 10dwt. (8861gr.)