MARK OF MARTIN-GUILLAUME BIENNAIS, PARIS, 1809-1819

细节

A PAIR OF FRENCH SILVER-GILT POTS-À-CRÈME FROM THE BORGHESE SERVICE**
MARK OF MARTIN-GUILLAUME BIENNAIS, PARIS, 1809-1819
Each flaring cylindrical, on three paw feet with anthemion joins, with everted gadrooned rim, the slightly domed cover with leaf calyx and acorn finial, the wood side handle inset with mother-of-pearl, each body and cover engraved with a coat of arms, each marked on base, body and cover bezel
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) long over handle; 8 oz. 10 dwt. (279 gr.) gross weight
The arms are those of Borghese, as borne by Prince Camillo Borghese (2)

来源

Prince Camillo Borghese, who married Pauline Bonaparte, the sister of the Emperor Napoleon on 6 November 1803
The Borghese Palace sale, Giacomini and Capobianchi, Rome, 28 March - 9 April 1892, part of lot 847
Don Antonio Licata
Prince Baucina
Ercole Canessa
Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, American Art Association/Anderson Galleries Inc., New York, 5 January 1934, part lot 706.

出版

A. Phillips and J. Sloane, Exhibition catalogue, Antiquity Revisited: English and French Silver Gilt, London, 1997, p. 110, no. 31

展览

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
San Marino, Huntington Art Gallery, November 1998 - January 1999

注意事项

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拍品专文

The original function of these pots, part of a group of seven from the Borghese service, has been much debated. The form is known in pre-Revolutionary France, and it has been suggested that these dishes held individual casseroles for truffles, eggs or ortollans to be served as condiments for the main course. However, 18th century menus and recipes suggest that pots of this type were used to hold cooked cream-flavored dishes, which were served as side dishes, or entremets.

Production of this form continued into the 19th century, as evidenced by an inventory for 18 pots-à-crème in a service made for Napoleon as King of Italy. (See Versailles et les Tables Royales en Europe, Versailles, November 1993 - February 1994, cat. no. 314-327.) An identical pair from the Mikhail Pavlovich service, by Cahier, sold at Christie's, Geneva, 17 November, 1998, lot 165