Dish covers, coolers, soup tureens, salt cellars, pepper and mustard pots, sauceboats

Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot, c. 1819

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 typesalt (condiment vessel)
  • Object numberBK-17037-A
  • Dimensionsheight 32.2 cm x width 19.2 cm x depth 12.2 cm x weight 1900 g

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Double salt with female figures
    • Dish covers, coolers, soup tureens, salt cellars, pepper and mustard pots, sauceboats
  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-17037-A

  • Description

    Empire dubbel zoutvat, van verguld zilver. Op een rechthoekige basis, staan 2 vrouwen in antieke klederdracht ruggelings naar een zuil gekeerd. Zij dragen ieder een rond vat met binnenbakje. Gegraveerd met het wapen van Potemkin.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • duty mark
    • maker's mark
    • alloy mark
    • countermark

Creation

  • Creation

    silversmith: Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot, Paris

  • Dating

    c. 1819

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Material and technique

  • Dimensions

    height 32.2 cm x width 19.2 cm x depth 12.2 cm x weight 1900 g


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  • Provenance

    Commissioned by or for Alexandra Countess Branicka - Vasilievna Engelhardt (1754-1838) and Franciszwesky Ksawery Petrovich Branicki (1730-1819), 1819;{Baarsen 2013, pp. 480-7, no. 118.}.…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 233, no. Si.103.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

  • Remarks

    Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.


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