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Auction archive: Lot number 25

A French silver-gilt mirror-plateau

Auction 22.11.2000
22 Nov 2000
Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$57,056 - US$85,584
Price realised:
£119,250
ca. US$170,099
Auction archive: Lot number 25

A French silver-gilt mirror-plateau

Auction 22.11.2000
22 Nov 2000
Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$57,056 - US$85,584
Price realised:
£119,250
ca. US$170,099
Beschreibung:

A French silver-gilt mirror-plateau Maker's mark of Charles-Nicolas Odiot, Paris, 1826-1838 Oblong and with curved ends, in four sections, with ribbon bound reeded rim and shell and acanthus foliage border, the sides cast and chased with vases of fruit and flowers, palmettes and dolphins, with scrolling acanthus foliage, rosettes and fruiting vines between, the ends and side with four pairs of detachable figures, a cup and thyrsus bearing Maenad, Ceres with a scythe and a sheaf of corn, Fortuna, and Peace with a dove and wreath, each on plinth with shell and acanthus border, four applied with a coat-of-arms with palm and berried laurel cartouche with royal crown above, and four applied with an Egyptian sistrum within palmette berried laurel, rosette, anthemion cartouche, marked on two sections, two stamped ODIOT, figures and plinths, one plinth apparently unmarked The plateau 101in. (258.5cm.) long 272/3in. (70.5cm.) wide The figures 15½in. (39.5cm.) high The figures 410oz. (12,767gr.)

Auction archive: Lot number 25
Auction:
Datum:
22 Nov 2000
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

A French silver-gilt mirror-plateau Maker's mark of Charles-Nicolas Odiot, Paris, 1826-1838 Oblong and with curved ends, in four sections, with ribbon bound reeded rim and shell and acanthus foliage border, the sides cast and chased with vases of fruit and flowers, palmettes and dolphins, with scrolling acanthus foliage, rosettes and fruiting vines between, the ends and side with four pairs of detachable figures, a cup and thyrsus bearing Maenad, Ceres with a scythe and a sheaf of corn, Fortuna, and Peace with a dove and wreath, each on plinth with shell and acanthus border, four applied with a coat-of-arms with palm and berried laurel cartouche with royal crown above, and four applied with an Egyptian sistrum within palmette berried laurel, rosette, anthemion cartouche, marked on two sections, two stamped ODIOT, figures and plinths, one plinth apparently unmarked The plateau 101in. (258.5cm.) long 272/3in. (70.5cm.) wide The figures 15½in. (39.5cm.) high The figures 410oz. (12,767gr.)

Auction archive: Lot number 25
Auction:
Datum:
22 Nov 2000
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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