Lot 199: A French Assembled five-piece silver-gilt coffee set, Paris, circa 1800-1830

comprising: Coffee Pot, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, 1819-1838 , larger Coffee Pot, Gabriel -Jacques-Andr é Bompart, 1819-1838 , covered Sugar Bowl, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, 1798-1809 , Creamer, Martin Guillaume Biennais, 1801-1819, hot Milk Jug, maker's mark ?CMC, 1809-1819 ; the first ovoid applied with winged Classical figures below a collar of dolphins, grapes and rushes, lioness spout, the handle with horned mask terminal; large coffee pot similar but with ram's head spout and satyr mask terminal; the two-handled oval sugar bowl with bud finial; bombe circular creamer, engraved with English arms, wood handle; hot milk jug ovoid with angular wood handle; larger coffee pot with contemporary fitted red leather case

height of larger coffee pot 13 5/8in. (34.4cm)

Coffee pots and creamer: J. Kugel, Paris
Covered sugar bowl: Christie's, Geneva, 19 November 1994, lot 46 (6,900 SF)

PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR, PARIS AND CALIFORNIA
The arms on the creamer are those of Herbert for Catherine, widow of George Augustus, 11th Earl of Pembroke (1794-1827). She was the only daughter of Simon, Count Woronzow of Russia, C.G.B., Russian Ambassador to England. She was born in 1783, died in 1856 and was buried at Wilton.