A French silver-gilt wine cooler, Maison Odiot, Paris, late 19th century

the sides applied with a male and female centaur playing instruments and mounted by a putto, running grapevine band below rim, the handles formed as fauns, removable silver-gilt liner, screw off foliate foot and detachable calyx

several small shallow dents to body, a long scratch to body below one handle, a few minor dents to liner along lower edge, otherwise good condition
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A similar model by Odiot with slight variations is illustrated in Pinçon and Gaube du Gers, Odiot l'Orfèvre, 1990, p. 85.