A FRENCH SILVER-GILT TEA CADDY

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

Details

A FRENCH SILVER-GILT TEA CADDY
MARK OF JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE ODIOT, PARIS, 1809-1819
Formed as a rectangular plinth, the base with stiff leaf border, the sides applied with figures of Bacchus astride a panther and ewers, with band of winged griffins and masks above, the sliding cover with kneeling bacchanalian infant finial, marked under base and cover
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) high; 24 oz. (750 gr.)

Literature

A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Exhibition catalogue, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt, London, 1997, p. 118, no. 36

Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Arts Under Napoleon," 6 April - 30 July 1978
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

Lot Essay

The applied scene on the side of this tea caddy depicting the infant Bacchus riding a panther and holding a thyrsus and tazza is found on another silver-gilt Odiot tea caddy, 1819-1838, and teapot, 1826-1838, both in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The finial of a kneeling bacchanalian figure can also be seen on a covered sugar bowl by Odiot of 1809-1819 at the Victoria and Albert Museum and on a pair of Odiot silver-gilt wine coolers from the Demidoff service from the Love Collection, illustrated in The Arts Under Napoleon, 1978, fig. 31.

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