Jean-Charles Cahier
( 1772 - 1857 )
An important Set of Four French Empire Pot à Oiles
Jean-Charles Cahier
( 1772 - 1857 )
An important Set of Four French Empire Pot à Oiles
Paris, 1819-1838
By Jean-Charles Cahier
Height:33 cm, 13 in
Each on circular base on lion’s paw feet , the circular bowl with palm fronds and with a band of rosettes.The main body also with cast an applied lyres, hippocamps, bull masks and cornucopia. The handles terminating on masks of Venus on the main bodies. The finials formed of with a hound dog.
Cahier was born in Soissons, goldsmith merchant and jeweller, living in Paris, rue de Turenne (1802) then 58, Quai des Orfèvres, under the sign of A l'Ancre. He was appointed goldsmith to the King in 1816 and took over from Martin-Guillaume Biennais (1764-1843), who he was apprenticed to, when the latter retired from business in 1821. Cahier first rented the Biennais shop and workshop located at n ° 283 rue Saint-Honoré (1821), then bought his business (1823), but kept his own home at 58 Quai des Orfèvres.
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