Girandole from the ‘Vermeil de Rome’ Napoleon Service
Martin-Guillaume Biennais (1764-1843)
Girandole from the ‘Vermeil de Rome’ Napoleon Service
Martin-Guillaume Biennais (1764-1843)
1811
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- Material/technique
- Silver, 15 solder
- Measurements
- 18.0 cm Dm (footprint), 52 × 33 cm
- Acquisition
- acquired in 1817 by Prince Johann I von Liechtenstein.
- Lender
- S.D. Fürst Hans-Adam II. von und zu Liechtenstein
- Artists/makers/authors
- Martin-Guillaume Biennais
- Inventory number
- SI 220.2
- Signature/inscriptions content only available in German
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Meistermarke: Martin Guillaume Biennais
Beschaumarke: Feingehaltstempel mit Hahn, Rosenberg Nr. 6569
Garantiestempel: Rosenberg, Nr. 6580, bei anderen Profilkopf im Queroval, Rosenberg Nr. 6573, 6558, 6588
- Provenance
- 1811 ordered at Biennais by Napoleon Bonaparte; 1814 taken to Naples by Gioacchino Murat; until 1817 Caroline Murat, née Bonaparte; acquired 1817 by Prince Johann I of Liechtenstein from Caroline Murat (named in the account as Countess Lipona)
- Place of origin
- Paris