Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume VI: Online Auction

A small French silver oval tray, Jean-Baptiste-Gustave Odiot, Paris, circa 1880

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October 17, 12:54 PM GMT

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400 - 600 EUR

Lot Details

Description

A small French silver oval tray, Jean-Baptiste-Gustave Odiot, Paris, circa 1880

the border decorated with laurel and leaves and ribons, the center engraved with a coat-of-arms with baron coronette en moto LUME NON E SE NON VIEN DALE SERNO, engraved under the base ODIOT A PARIS 9495

length 8⅞in.; width 6¾in.; weight 11,2oz.; 22,5 cm; 17 cm; 349 g.

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Petit plateau ovale en argent par Jean-Baptiste-Gustave Odiot, Paris, vers 1880

le bord mouluré de feuilles de laurier et de rosaces en spirale, gravé au centre d'armoiries timbré d'une couronne de baron

length 8⅞in.; width 6¾in.; weight 11,2oz.; 22,5 cm; 17 cm; 349 g.

Jean-Marc Delvaux, Paris, 31 May 2018, lot 308.

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Jean-Marc Delvaux, Paris, 31 mai 2018, lot 308.

The arms are those of Gérard and Dampierre, and this tray has most probably been made for the wedding of Maurice, Baron Gérard, with Béatrix de Dampierre in January 1880. Maurice Gérard was the great-nephew of the famous portrait painter François Simon Gérard (1770-1837). After his father, he inherited from the vast fortune of the painter and so was able to buy the hôtel de la Vaupalière avenue Matignon. He had another hotel built just behind, today the Jockey Club hotel.