A SET OF FOUR FRENCH SILVER SALT-CELLARS

MARK OF JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE ODIOT, PARIS, 1819 - 1825

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A SET OF FOUR FRENCH SILVER SALT-CELLARS
MARK OF JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE ODIOT, PARIS, 1819 - 1825
Each on a rectangular base on four ball feet, the double bowls modeled as a shell and supported on the tail of a dolphin which forms the stem, the interior of the shells gilt, engraved with a crest below a coronet, each marked under base, on stem and on bowl, the bases also stamped 'ODIOT'
5 5/8 in. (14.5 cm.) wide; 57 oz. (1,770 gr.) (4)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 19 May 1998, lot 64.

Lot Essay

These salts are after a 1806 design by Adrien-Louis-Marie-Cavelier (illustrated J.-M. Pinçon and O. Gaube de Gers, Odiot, l'Orfèvre, 1990, p. 93). It was later used and adapted by Charles-Nicolas Odiot and was to become one of the firm's most popular designs (e.g. Christie's, London, 31 March, 1998, lot 19). Odiot also used entwined dolphins on a tureen, circa 1808, and on silver-gilt sauceboats of 1806 which formed part of the service made for Madame Mère, Laetitia Bonaparte (op.cit., pp. 72 and 117).

CAPTION: Odiot design drawing for a double salt cellar, 1806, by Adrien-Louis-Marie-Cavelier (1785-1867), Collection Odiot

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