Details
In the Empire style after a model by Biennais, comprising four crescent-form dishes and a circular dish, aal with stiff leaf and berry rims, the covers engraved with laurels and anthemion, the crescent-form covers with seated hound-form finials, the circular cover with a bud-form finial, all fitting together on a conforming circular tray, marked on dishes, covers, and tray, all further engraved PUIFORCAT PARIS on undersides
1614 in. (41.3 cm.) diameter, the tray
190 oz. 12 dwt. (5,928 gr.)
Provenance
Habib Sabet (1903-1990) Collection, Europe and New York, 1970s, and thence by descent within the family.
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Lot Essay

The present lot is modeled after four dishes by Martin-Guillaume Biennais dated 1809-1814 which are now in the collection of the Louvre, Paris (Acc. No. OA 9696). These dishes were part of a larger supper service commissioned by Napoleon as an official gift to Jean Bernadotte (1763-1844), marshal of France and later King Charles XIV John of Sweden. An identical example by Puiforcat was sold from the collection of Mrs. Patricia M. Kluge, Christie's, New York, 22 October 2009, lot 52.

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