About the Artwork
These coolers were originally part of a 119-piece dinner service delivered by the Odiot firm to Count Nikolai Demidoff, a Russian prince living in Paris, in 1817 and 1818. The favorite silversmith of Napoleon I and later official orfèvre (goldsmith) to King Louis XVIII, Odiot operated the most important silversmith workshop in Paris in the first half of the nineteenth century, patronized by a distinguished French and foreign clientele. The form of these wine coolers is borrowed from the classical krater, a two-handled vessel used to mix water and wine in ancient Greece and Rome.
Wine-Bottle Cooler
ca. 1817
Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot (Artist) French, 1763-1850 Adrien-Louis-Marie Cavelier (Designer) French, 1785-1867
Silver gilt
Overall (cooler): 14 5/16 × 10 3/4 × 7 7/8 inches (36.4 × 27.3 × 20 cm) Overall (liner): 6 3/4 × 6 5/16 inches (17.1 × 16 cm) Overall (cover): 3/16 × 6 5/8 inches (0.5 × 16.8 cm)
Silver
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mrs. Roger Kyes in memory of her husband
71.296
Public Domain
Markings
Stamp, on base: J B C ODIOT
Provenance
December 5, 1817, supplied by the Odiot firm to Count Nicholas Demidoff [1774-1828];possibly gift to Madame de la Chappelle;
1863, unidentified noble family (England).
by inheritance to anonymous Englishman of title [who had inherited them from his grandfather];
December 15, 1928, sold by (Anderson Galleries, New York, New York, USA) lot 32 or 33;
Anna Thomson Dodge;
June 24, 1981, (Christie's, London, England) lot 53.
Mrs. Roger Kyes;
1971-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Soyer. Modèles d'orfèvrerie choisis à l'Exposition des produits de l'industrie française, au Louvre, en 1819. Paris, 1822, (pls. 62, 70).
Sales cat., Anderson Galleries. New York, December 15, 1928, lot 32 or 33.
Sales cat., Christie's. London, June 24, 1971, lot 215.
La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: supplement to Gazette des beaux-arts 79 (January 1972): pp. 1-188 (fig. 359).
Bulletin of the DIA 51, no. 1 (1972): p. 35 (ill.).
Davidson, Ruth. "Museum Accessions." Antiques 103 (March 1973): pp. 440-454.
Draper, James David, and Clare Le Corbellier. The Arts Under Napoleon. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1978, no. 157.
Darr, Alan Phipps. European Decorative Arts from Royal Collections. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe, 1981.
Sales cat., Christie's. New York, June 14, 1982, lot 141.
Pinçon, Jean-Marie, and Olivier Gaube du Gers. Odiot l'Orfèvre. Paris, 1990, pp. 84-85, 87.
Sales cat., Christie's. Geneva, November 13, 1990, lot 86.
Dion-Tenenbaum, Anne. Un âge d'or des arts décoratifs, 1814-1848. Exh. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 1991, no. 38.
Sales cat., Christie's. New York, April 22, 1993, lot 358.
Sales cat., Sotheby's. Geneva, May 16, 1994, lot 136.
Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, pp. 138-141 (ill.), no. 35; p. 140.
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Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot; Adrien-Louis-Marie Cavelier, Wine-Bottle Cooler, ca. 1817, silver gilt. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Roger Kyes in memory of her husband, 71.296.
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