ODIOT SIX SILVER-PLATED VINE LEAVES CANDLE HOLDERS

Lot 552
500700
goldsmith hallmark: “O with antique lamp”, signed ‘ODIOT’, the Paris guarantee hallmark: a head of Ceres facing left silver-plated metal Height: 16.5 cm, base 11 cm The house ODIOT was founded in 1690 and gained its notoriety with Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Odiot, who became master in 1720. His grandson Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot (1763-1850) was a purveyor to the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte; Charles-Nicolat Odiot (1789-1868) succeeded to his father and became purveyor by appointment to King Louis-Philippe and the Orléans family. The Odiot family managed the firm during more than two centuries from 1690 until 1906.