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Antonio Joli - The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the west
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Antonio Joli - The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the east
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Antonio Zona - Portrait of Louise Loy Smart
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John Riley - Portrait of Louis Dufort-Duras Earl of Feversham
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King David and the water carriers, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
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Utagawa Hiroshige - Night snow in Kambara
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Jan Saenredam da Hendrick Goltzius - Mario Furio Camillo arrives in Rome to negotiate with the Gauls
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Giovanni Britto o Nicolò Boldrini da Tiziano Vecellio - Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine
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Rosalba Carriera - Madonna
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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller - Prayer before the storm
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Giuseppe Ceracchi - Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Bertel Thorvaldsen - Portrait of Michele Coronini Cronberg
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Pair of glasses
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Andreas Ferdinand Spiegel - Spoil
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Shelf clock
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Pair of cafes
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Martin-Guillaume Biennais - Pair of salt cellars
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Pitcher and sugar bowl
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Spring
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Luca Pacioli - About the game of chess
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Pierre Philippe Thomire - Shelf clock
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Desk service
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Shotgun
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Cup with saucer
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - The man who looks at the sun
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - The sneeze
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Bureau-cabinet
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Spoil
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Wedding fan
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Edouard De Beaumon - Folding fan
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Dress with tailcoat, breeches and waistcoat
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Cup with saucer
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Glass
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Pauline Ducruet Augustin; Jean-Baptiste Fossin - Bracelet with miniature portrait of Count Edwin de Fagan
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Soup bowl
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Etagère with mirror
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Francesco Caucig - The Visitation
Antonio Joli - The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the west
Antonio Joli - The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the east
Antonio Zona - Portrait of Louise Loy Smart
John Riley - Portrait of Louis Dufort-Duras Earl of Feversham
King David and the water carriers, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Utagawa Hiroshige - Night snow in Kambara
Jan Saenredam da Hendrick Goltzius - Mario Furio Camillo arrives in Rome to negotiate with the Gauls
Giovanni Britto o Nicolò Boldrini da Tiziano Vecellio - Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine
Rosalba Carriera - Madonna
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller - Prayer before the storm
Giuseppe Ceracchi - Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
Bertel Thorvaldsen - Portrait of Michele Coronini Cronberg
Pair of glasses
Andreas Ferdinand Spiegel - Spoil
Shelf clock
Pair of cafes
Martin-Guillaume Biennais - Pair of salt cellars
Pitcher and sugar bowl
Spring
Luca Pacioli - About the game of chess
Pierre Philippe Thomire - Shelf clock
Desk service
Shotgun
Cup with saucer
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - The man who looks at the sun
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - The sneeze
Bureau-cabinet
Spoil
Wedding fan
Edouard De Beaumon - Folding fan
Dress with tailcoat, breeches and waistcoat
Cup with saucer
Glass
Pauline Ducruet Augustin; Jean-Baptiste Fossin - Bracelet with miniature portrait of Count Edwin de Fagan
Soup bowl
Etagère with mirror
Francesco Caucig - The Visitation

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These splendid salt cellars bear the stamp of Martin-Guillaume Biennais (1764-1843), one of the most famous French silversmiths of his time, official supplier of Napoleon Bonaparte and his court. Arriving in Paris in 1789, Biennais began his career as a cabinetmaker in a workshop located in Rue Saint-Honoré, bearing the sign of the Purple Monkey (Singe Violet), destined to remain his characteristic trademark. Following the abolition of the guilds imposed by the revolutionary laws of 1791 and 1797, which allowed anyone to take up the profession, Biennais decided to devote himself to silverware, initially producing small objects, such as toiletry sets and travel bags, and placing the foundations of a thriving business which, at the height of his success, would have led him to employ as many as six hundred people. The oval bowls in cut crystal, supported by winged sphinxes with a single leg, echo in a surprising way the salt shakers belonging to the great service in gilded silver performed by Biennais on the occasion of the wedding between Napoleon and Maria Luisa of Austria, commission documented by a payment dated 27 August 1810. As we can also observe in the two Coronini salt cellars, the objects produced by Biennais usually present sober shapes, inspired by the ancient, whose elegant functionality is not suffocated, but rather enhanced, by the refined decorations that are arranged on the architecture of the piece without compromising the perfect compositional balance.

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