109. Suite of twelve silver dessert plates (950/1000th), the rim engraved with the numeral "CC" under a closed crown. Numbered on reverse. Goldsmith: Martin-Guillaume BIENNAIS (hallmark inscribed in 1801 or 1802). Paris, 1798-1809. Weight: 3,068 g. D : 21 cm Possibly the figure of Caroline Bonaparte, Grand Duchess Consort of Berg and later Queen Consort of Naples. consort of Naples. Bibliography: DION-TENENBAUM, A., L'orfèvre de Napoléon, Martin-Guillaume Biennais, cat. Biennais, Musée du Louvre exhibition catalogue, RMN, Paris, 2003.
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109. Suite of twelve silver dessert plates (950/1000th), the rim engraved with the numeral
"CC" under a closed crown. Numbered on reverse.
Goldsmith: Martin-Guillaume BIENNAIS (hallmark inscribed in 1801 or 1802).
Paris, 1798-1809.
Weight: 3,068 g.
D : 21 cm
Possibly the figure of Caroline Bonaparte, Grand Duchess Consort of Berg and later Queen Consort of Naples.
consort of Naples.
Bibliography: DION-TENENBAUM, A., L'orfèvre de Napoléon, Martin-Guillaume Biennais, cat.
Biennais, Musée du Louvre exhibition catalogue, RMN, Paris, 2003.
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