A PAIR OF ITALIAN SILVER-GILT WINE COASTERS FROM THE BORGHESE SERVICE

MARK OF SCHEGGI BROTHERS, FLORENCE, CIRCA 1825

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN SILVER-GILT WINE COASTERS FROM THE BORGHESE SERVICE
MARK OF SCHEGGI BROTHERS, FLORENCE, CIRCA 1825
Each circular, the borders pierced with anthemia and hippocamps, each engraved with a coat of arms, each marked on side
3 15/16 in. (10 cm.) diameter; 12 oz. 10 dwt. (399 gr.)
The arms are those of Borghese, as borne by Prince Camillo Borghese (2)

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, part lot 672, 673, 674 or 675

Literature

A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Exhibition catalogue, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver-Gilt, London, 1997, p.106, no. 29

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

Lot Essay

The Scheggis were an important family of silversmiths in Florence, making commissions for Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany and publishing a number of silver designs in the Magazzino di Mobilia. The brothers Luigi and Vincenzo, and the latter's sons Angelo and Ferdinando, all used the mark found on the present wine coasters around 1825.

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