A Large Italian Silver Festival Dish, Assay Master Bartolomeo Bernardi, Turin, Circa 1800
Estimate
10,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
lightly shaped circular with beaded rim and foliate clasps, inner rim of foliate swags and oval pendants before pales; the center deeply embossed with a cartouche with laurel branches and garlands, within rosette of beads, floral swags and pendants, before pales, marked on back with maker, front with French occupation marks for 1809-14; also with slightly later shield control mark
diameter 21 in.
53.3 cm
A very similar dish, described as a Passover Seder dish, by Francesco Ghiotti, 1780-90, is at the Palazzo Madama — Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Turin, https://artsupp.com/it/artisti/francesco-ghiotti/piatto-di-pesach
Another of 1812-1822, also described as a Passover Seder dish, is at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, part of the Eloise and Elliot Kaplan Endowment for Judaica (2015.20).
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