Pair of Platters, from a Service Made for Pauline Bonaparte and Prince Camillo Borghese

1. Probably commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte I, between 1809 and 1819 as a gift to Pauline Bonaparte and Prince Camillo Borghese (per Paris Assay marks for 1809-1819, engraved and embossed Napoleonic Crowns surmounting the Borghese Crests, and inscriptions “orfevre de Lrs. Mtes. Imperialism et Royales a Paris” on pieces of the service); private collection of Pauline Bonaparte and Prince Camillo Borghese; thence by descent, Borghese Palace, Rome; sold their sale Rome, Apartment du Prince Borghese, 1892 (Lot 847, copy of catalog in curatorial file, see publication history for exact lot); possibly with Antonio Licata, Naples, 1892. With Ercole Canessa, dealer, Naples, Paris, or New York, by 1892; sold to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Chicago, before 1924; sold her sale, New York, Anderson Galleries, The Collection of Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick, 1934 (lots 628-774, copy of catalog in curatorial file, see publication history for exact lot); collection of Charles V. and Catherine Barker Spaulding Hickox, New York, NY, until 1966; given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Rome, Palais Borghese, Apartment du Prince Borghese, March 24 – March 26, 1892.
• Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Loan Exhibition, July 1 – October 1, 1924.
• Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Paulina Borghese Silver, October 1924 – November, 1932.
• New York, Anderson Galleries, The Collection of Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick, December 28, 1933 – January 6, 1934.
• Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, January 24 – March 28, 1976.

• Catalogue des objets d’art et d’ameublement qui garnissent le grand appartement au premier étage du palais du Prince Borghese à Rome (Rome: Imprimerie Editrice Romana, 1892), pp. 128-30, lot 847, no. 11 (p. 129).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, “Summer Loan Exhibitions,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 18, no. 6 (September 1924): mentioned p. 79.
• “McCormick Art to be sold in January at American-Anderson Galleries,” The Art News, vol. XXXII, no. 10 (9 December 1933): p. 127.
• “Historic Silver and Fine Tapestries Feature McCormick Sale,” The Art Digest, vol. VIII, no. 6 (15 December 1933): p. 15.
• “McCormick Art Collection Now on Exhibition,” The Art News, vo. XXXII, no. 12 (23 December 1933): p. 16.
• Anderson Galleries, The Collection of Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick (New York: American Art Association, 1934): p. 111, lots 726-27.
• “Exhibitions and Sales,” Antiques, vol. XXV, no. 1 (January 1934): pp. 25-26.
• “McCormick Auction,” The Art News, vol. XXXII, no. 15 (13 January 1934): pp. 3, 14.
• “Exhibitions and Sales,” Antiques, vol. XXV, no. 2 (February 1934): pp. 69-71.
• “New York Sales,” The Connoisseur, vol. 93, no. 390 (February 1934): pp. 135-36.
• “American Art Sales,” Apollo, vol. XIX, no. 3 (March 1934): p. 174.
• John Maxon, “Report of the Associate Director,” The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1965-1966, p. 34, p. 11.

Sauceboat and Stand (one of a pair), from a Service Made for Pauline Bonaparte and Prince Camillo Borghese

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Glass Cooler, from a Service Made for Pauline Bonaparte and Prince Camillo Borghese

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Candelabra (one of a pair), from a Service Made for Pauline Bonaparte and Prince Camillo Borghese

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Pair of Bonbon Dishes

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Sword of Service and Scabbard

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Double Salt (one of a pair), from a Service Made for Pauline Bonaparte and Prince Camillo Borghese

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Standing Dish and Cover, from a Service Made for Pauline Bonaparte and Prince Camillo Borghese

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Set of Dinner Forks (10), from a Service Made for Pauline Bonaparte and Prince Camillo Borghese

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