Jean-Baptiste-Claude ODIOT (1763 - 1850) - Lot 114

Jean-Baptiste-Claude ODIOT (1763 - 1850) Reunion of two silver dishes (hallmark: Minerve) with ribboned fillets and pinched ribs, engraved with the arms of Alphonse Gérard, comte de Rayneval (1813-1858). Goldsmith's hallmark and signature in full "Odiot à Paris". Total gross weight: 1621.2 gr. Diameters: 28 and 30 cm Provenance: Château de VILLEPREUX - Famille LE GOUZ de SAINT SEINE: - Château de VILLEPREUX - LE GOUZ de SAINT SEINE family. Note : Alphonse Gérard, comte de Rayneval (1813-1858) was a French diplomat and foreign minister. Before 1836, he was embassy attaché in Madrid, then on September 5, 1836, became chief of staff to the prime minister, Mathieu Molé, and in 1839, first secretary of the embassy in Rome, under the ambassador Count Septime de Latour-Maubourg. In April 1844, he became First Secretary to the Embassy and Chargé d'Affaires in St. Petersburg, and on June 29, 1848, Minister Plenipotentiary of France to the Government of the Two Sicilies. On March 26, 1851 he became French ambassador to the Holy See, and on August 18, 1857 French ambassador to St Petersburg.