Getting started with the collection:
Dish covers, coolers, soup tureens, salt cellars, pepper and mustard pots, sauceboats
Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot (1763-1850), Paris, c. 1819, silver gilt
These items are part of an 140-piece service that belonged to Alexandra Vasilievna Engelhardt, a noblewoman at the Russian court. The renowned silversmith Odiot collaborated with the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier. They proudly presented their models at the French national crafts exhibition in 1819. The large late Empire figures, like the kneeling angels supporting the soup tureen, are striking.
- Artwork typetureen
- Object numberBK-17033
- Dimensionsheight 49.7 cm x width 49.4 cm x depth 27.9 cm x weight 14590 gr
- Physical characteristicsverguld zilver