Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars, pepper and mustard pots

A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new models at the 1819 French national exhibition of decorative art.

Notable are the kneeling angels supporting the soup tureen, which are characteristic of the late Empire style.