Pair of Standing Dishes

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Applied Arts of Europe

c. 1820

Pietro Paola Spagna (Italian, 1793-1861)
Rome, Italy

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Artist: Pietro Paola Spagna
Title: Pair of Standing Dishes
Place: Rome (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1815–1825
Medium: Gilt silver
Inscriptions: Marks: PPSI, city above crossed keys
Dimensions: H.: 20.3 cm (8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles V. Hickox
Reference Number: 1966.99a-b
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Catalogue des objets d’art et d’ameublement qui garnissent le grand appartement au premier étage du palais du Prince Borghese à Rome (Rome: Imprimerie Editrice Romana, 1892), pp. 128-30, lot 847, no. 34 (p. 129).
Anderson Galleries, The Collection of Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick (New York: American Art Association, 1934): poss. p. 106, lots 689-91. [attributed to Odiot in cat.]
Allen Wardwell, “Continental Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Antiques, XCII, no. 4, (October 1967): p. 513.
John W. Keefe, et al., Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976), p. 162, cat. 267.

Rome, Palais Borghese, Apartment du Prince Borghese, March 24 – March 26, 1892.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Loan Exhibition, July 1 – October 1, 1924.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Paulina Borghese Silver, October 1924 – November, 1932.
New York, Anderson Galleries, The Collection of Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick, December 28, 1933 – January 6, 1934.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, January 24 – March 28, 1976.

Commissioned by Pauline Bonaparte or Prince Camillo Borghese (per Italian hallmarks); private collection of Pauline Bonaparte and Prince Camillo Borghese; thence by descent, Borghese Palace, Rome; sold their sale Rome, Apartment du Prince Borghese, 1892 (Lot 847, copy of catalog in curatorial file, see publication history for exact lot); possibly with Antonio Licata, Naples, 1892. With Ercole Canessa, dealer, Naples, Paris, or New York, by 1892; sold to Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Chicago, before 1924; sold her sale, New York, Anderson Galleries, The Collection of Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick, 1934 (Lots 628-774, copy of catalog in curatorial file, see publication history for exact lot); collection of Charles V. and Catherine Barker Spaulding Hickox, New York, NY, until 1966; given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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