Art Institute of Chicago
Warming Dish, from a Service Made for Pauline Bonaparte and Prince Camillo Borghese
Marked by Martin-Guillaume Biennais (born France, 1764–1843)
- Date
- 1794–1819
- Medium
- Gilded silver and gilded copper
- Culture
- Paris
- Department
- Applied Arts of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
These objects for the dining table are part of a vast service made for Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s sister Pauline on the occasion of her marriage to the Roman nobleman Camillo Borghese, Sixth Prince of Sulmona. In the years after the French Revolution, architects and designers adopted the visual language of ancient Greece and Rome to express the new imperial order. Napoleon, hoping to promote Paris’s luxury trades, commissioned several silver dinner services as gifts to be sent abroad. The slender outlines and smooth surfaces of the vessels in the Borghese service contrast with the rich decoration.
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