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Lot 158
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Teh Branicki Service, A French Silver-gilt sugar bowl, liner, cover, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Paris circa 1819

Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • height 12 1/2 in.
  • 32 cm
formed as two nymphs supporting an oval bowl, applied with cherubs, butterflies, baskets of fruit and masks, bud and leafy disc finial, on a rectangular plinth and lion's paw supports, the cover and liner engraved once and the plinth twice with the Branicki arms, the body and plinth stamped ODIOT.

Provenance

The property of the Branicki family
The Castille Collection
The Odiot Collection
Sold, Sotheby's, Geneva, May 24, 1993, lot 168

Exhibited

Exposition des produits de L'Industrie Française au Louvre, August 25-September 30, 1819

Literature

Portraits Russes, Edition de Grand-duc Nicholas Mikhailovitch, St. Petersburg, 1909, nos. 5, 154 and 214
Henri Bouilhet, L'Orfèvrerie Française aux XVIII et XIX Siècles, Paris, 1910, vol. II, p. 102
Serge Grandjean, L'Orfèvrerie du XIX Siècle en Europe, Paris, 1962, p. 153
Collection Connaissance des Arts, Les Grands Orfèvres de Louis XIII à Charles X, Paris, 1965, p. 290
Exhibition catalogue, The Glory of the Goldsmith, Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, London, 1989, no. 25
Jean-Marie Piçon and Olivier Gaube du Gers, Odiot L'Orfèvre, Paris, 1990, p. 135
Exhibition catalogue, Un âge d'or des arts décoratifs 1814-1848, Grand Palais, Paris, October 10-December 30, 1991, p. 132

Catalogue Note

The arms are those of the Polish General Count Francois-Xavier Branicki (1731-1819) and his Russian wife, Alexandrine Vassiliewna Engelhardt (1754-1838).