MARK OF MARTIN-GUILLAUME BIENNAIS, PARIS, 1798-1809

細節

A set of twenty-four French silver dinner-plates
Mark of Martin-Guillaume Biennais, Paris, 1798-1809
Each circular with everted border and reeded anthemion rim, each (later?) engraved with crowned coat-of-arms, each base inscribed with a number: 97; 100; 124; 362; 908; 909; 910; 915; 917; 922; 928; 930; 939; 949; 955; 961; 1310; 1311; 1312; 1320; 1339; 1342; 1343 and 1348, marked on bases
23.8 cm. diam.
12206 gr.
Please note that the arms are those of Duchess Marie Louise of Parma (24)

注意事項

Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

拍品專文

Martin-Guillaume Biennais (1764-1843) was the first goldsmith of Napoleon I.
For a similar set of plates with the Imperial coat-of-arms in the posession of the Royal Scottish Museum see: Anne Dion-Tenenbaum, L'orfèvre de Napoléon, Martin-Guillaume Biennais, Paris, 2003, p. 70, no. 40, illustrated.