Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot

Jean-Baptiste Claude was influenced by the return of the classical Greek and Egyptian motifs as expressed in the Directoire and Empire styles.

Charles Nicolas Odiot, who excelled in the rocaille style, succeeded his father and became the purveyor by appointment to His Majesty the King Louis-Philippe and to the Royal Family of Orleans.

He was later succeeded by his son Gustave who received the House of Odiot's most important commission ever, id est, 3,000 pieces of solid gold flatware for Saïd Pacha, the Viceroy of Egypt.

Odiot’s most complex work was a set of dressing-table furniture made for Empress Marie Louise in 1810 (destr.

Among the most prominent commissions received by Odiot, was the Cradle of the King of Rome, a wood, bronze and silver gilt cradle given as a gift by the city of Paris to Napoleon and his wife Empress Marie-Louise, on the birth of their son Napoleon II.

Odiot by Robert Lefèvre , 1822.
Soup tureen made in silver gilt from 1819, Indianapolis Museum of Art , Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Cradle of the King of Rome, Secular and Ecclesiastical Treasury , Vienna, Austria.