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Lot 219 Dα

A Parisian silver wine cooler

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 50.000 € - 60.000 €
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A Parisian silver wine cooler

The cast silver plinth designed as an earth mound plinth with raised tendrils, vines and grapes surrounding a finely chased model of a snail. The large, dynamically modelled cooling vessel with corresponding decoration and handles formed as two detailed barbet head mascarons. H 21.5, W 27, D 20.5 cm, weight 7,750 g.
Paris, marks of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, 1819 – 38.

For this work, Odiot was obviously inspired by an earlier wine cooler designed by Thomas Germain for the Duc d'Orléans in 1727, which is now in the collection of the Louvre in Paris (inv. no. OA9431). The sculptural base with the small snail is almost identical in its execution. In another pair of wine coolers by Germain, made in 1744, the two handles in the form of dogs' heads resemble the present ones in every detail.

Literature

The wine cooler by Thomas Germain made for the Duc d'Orléans illustrated in Dennis, Three centuries of French Domestic Silver, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1960, no. 168. For Germain's wine cooler with identical handles cf. cat. Les grands orfèvres de Louis XIII à Charles X – Collection Connaissance des Arts, Paris 1965, p. 124, no. 3.