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Warming Dish, c. 1794–1819
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Artist | Martin-Guillaume Biennais |
| Spatial Coverage | Paris |
| Temporal Coverage | 1794-1819 |
| Description | 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. [A work made of gilt silver and gilt copper.] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
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| Subject Keyword | Dish (vessel) Borghese Service Vermeil Repousse Napoleonic Silver Silver Gilt Nonferrous Metal Metal Inorganic Material Metal Work European Decorative Arts Gilding Applique (technique) Chasing Metal Working Empire Neoclassicism Dining Napoleon Artworks Applied Arts of Europe |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Visual Artwork |