Odiot at the Paris Exhibition of 1867 - "Le Travail a la Forge" The Pétin Surtout de Table. A monumental French silvered-bronze figural centerpiece and pair of matching twelve-light candelabra, designed and modeled by François Gilbert, chased by Paul Diomède for Odiot, Paris, 1867 the base of the centerpiece with four seated noble craftsmen bearing the tools of their trade, their feet surrounded by the new products and machinery of the modern steel industry, the border with medallions depicting various machines, mining and transport scenes, the central stem with ships' prows branding cannons below the oval basin, with further medallions and shields inscribed with the names of the towns in which Pétin owned factories and mines: Assailly, Gevors, Sardaigne, St. Chamont, Toga, Rive-de-Gier, Clavieres, Unieux, the candelabra similarly decorated, each on shaped circular base decorated with floral and foliate ornament, with two male figures holding tools of the steel industry, the twelve branches divided in two tiers and decorated with applied foliage and classical ornament over a partly matted ground each piece stamped on the base rim ODIOT A PARIS centerpiece: height 29 1/2 in. by length 26in.; candelabra: height 35in. 75 by 66cm; 89cm
Odiot at the Paris Exhibition of 1867 - "Le Travail a la Forge" The Pétin Surtout de Table. A monumental French silvered-bronze figural centerpiece and pair of matching twelve-light candelabra, designed and modeled by François Gilbert, chased by Paul Diomède for Odiot, Paris, 1867 the base of the centerpiece with four seated noble craftsmen bearing the tools of their trade, their feet surrounded by the new products and machinery of the modern steel industry, the border with medallions depicting various machines, mining and transport scenes, the central stem with ships' prows branding cannons below the oval basin, with further medallions and shields inscribed with the names of the towns in which Pétin owned factories and mines: Assailly, Gevors, Sardaigne, St. Chamont, Toga, Rive-de-Gier, Clavieres, Unieux, the candelabra similarly decorated, each on shaped circular base decorated with floral and foliate ornament, with two male figures holding tools of the steel industry, the twelve branches divided in two tiers and decorated with applied foliage and classical ornament over a partly matted ground each piece stamped on the base rim ODIOT A PARIS centerpiece: height 29 1/2 in. by length 26in.; candelabra: height 35in. 75 by 66cm; 89cm
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