AN EMPIRE SILVER-GILT BREAD-BASKET

MAKER'S MARK OF JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE ODIOT, PARIS, 1798-1809

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AN EMPIRE SILVER-GILT BREAD-BASKET
Maker's mark of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Paris, 1798-1809
Oval, on spreading oval base with water-leaf and beaded rim, the plain body applied with a band of stylised laurel leaves and flowers, the upper part pierced with stylised palms, the interior finely engraved and pierced with foliage, flowers and palm bands, with beaded and water-leaf rims, the bifurcated handles terminating in two snakes' heads on a chased band of scrolling foliage, marked on base, also stamped J. Bte. Cde. Odiot
49 cm. (19¼ in.) x 28 cm. (11 in.), 19 cm. (7½ in.) high
2,388 gr. (76 oz.)

拍品专文

This large basket is similar in form to one by the same, 1798-1809, purchased by Elizabeth Patterson, first wife of Jérôme Bonaparte, younger brother of Emperor Napoléon I, and King of Westphalia (see Sotheby's, New York, April 12, 1988, lot 28). The Patterson basket had less elaborate handles and weighted rather less. It was described in the Odiot accounts as "une jatte ovale anses serpent... corbeille à pain" and was sold to Mrs Patterson on May 20, 1817 for 260 FF.