A SET OF NINE FRENCH SILVER-GILT BASTING SPOONS FROM THE BORGHESE SERVICE

MARK OF PIERRE-BENÔIT LORILLON, PARIS, 1789-1819

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A SET OF NINE FRENCH SILVER-GILT BASTING SPOONS FROM THE BORGHESE SERVICE
MARK OF PIERRE-BENÔIT LORILLON, PARIS, 1789-1819
The handles chased with anthemia and flower-baskets, the reverse engraved with a coat of arms, each marked on reverse
11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) long; 52 oz. (1622 gr.)
The arms are those of Borghese, as borne by Prince Camillo Borghese (9)

Provenance

Prince Camillo Borghese, who married Pauline Bonaparte, 1803
The Borghese Palace Sale, Giacomini and Capobianchi, Rome, March 28 - April 9, 1892, part of lot 847
Don Antonio Licata
Prince Baucina
Ercole Canessa
Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, American Art Association/Anderson Galleries, January 5, 1934, nine of twelve sold in sets of six, lots 642 and 643

Literature

A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Exhibiton catalogue, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt, London, 1997, p. 112. no. 32.

Exhibited

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, June 1924 - November 1932
New York, Christie's, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt from the Collection of Audrey Love, September, 1997 (two exhibited)
San Marino, Huntington Art Gallery, November 1998 - January 1999 (two exhibited)

Lot Essay

The Borghese service includes nearly one thousand pieces of table silver and was produced by Biennais and also subcontracted by him to others such as Lorillon, Odiot, Naudin, Michel Kinon and Aimée-Catherine Cléri.

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