Old Master Drawings

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Lot 136
  • 136

Henri Auguste

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Henri Auguste
  • A design for a salver, with a smaller study of a cup and a base
  • Pen and black ink and golden brown wash, heightened with white;
    bears Odiot Collection stamp in red ink and numbered in pen and brown ink: 509; inscribed in pencil (verso): Pour L'empereur de Perse

Provenance

Maison Odiot, Paris

Exhibited

Paris, Hôtel Georges V, Odiot, October 1975, no. 60

Catalogue Note

This design is for another piece intended for Feth-Ali, Shah of Persia (see lot 133).  At the center of the salver is the collar of the Order of the Legion of Honour, founded by Napoleon.  Above to the right is a design for a lion-footed base.  The small cup in the top left corner is a design for the cups which were intended to sit in the circles on the salver, making it a work designed with middle eastern habits of serving refreshments in mind.