AN ITALIAN SILVER WINE-COOLER

MARK OF PIETRO PAULO SPAGNA, ROME, CIRCA 1830

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AN ITALIAN SILVER WINE-COOLER
MARK OF PIETRO PAULO SPAGNA, ROME, CIRCA 1830
Fluted baluster shaped and on four bearded satyr mask, shell, scroll and foliage feet, with shell and foliate scroll border and with foliate scroll bracket handles, applied on each side with a coat-of-arms with coronet above, marked underneath

8¾ in. (22.3 cm.) high
81 oz. 11 dwt. (2,537 gr.)
The arms are those of Borghese.

Exhibited

A wine-cooler of similar form was exhibited in Rome, Argenti Romani di Tre Secoli Nelle Raccolte Private, Palazo Braschi, 7-26 May 1970, no. 129, pl. LXXI.

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Lot Essay

Pietro Paolo Spagna (w. 1817-1861) is recorded as working for the Borghese family. The firm supplied additional silver to the well-known Borghese service by Martin-Guillaume Biennais. These pieces were probably ordered by Princess Pauline Borghese, who lived separately from her husband, in Rome from 1814-1828. It is probable that these coolers were included in the Borghese Palace sale, in Rome 1892.

A comparable example with detachable liner was sold Sotheby's, New York, 21 October 2010, lot 54 and a further pair were sold Sotheby's, Paris, 29 April 2009, lot 113.

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