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Lot 805 Dα

A Florentine silver travel dinner set made for Marchese Pucci

Auction 1152 - overview Cologne
29.05.2020, 14:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 12.500 € (incl. premium)
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A Florentine silver travel dinner set made for Marchese Pucci

Silver-gilt set consisting of an ecuelle and cover, a dish, and a spoon. The centre of the dish and the lid of the ecuelle engraved with the coat of arms of the Florentine Pucci family beneath a foliate crown and the device “CANDIDA PRAECORDIA”. The terminal of the spoon monogrammed “OP”. In the original leather-bound case with lock, the inside of the lid embossed “SOUVENIR”. H of the ecuelle 18.5 cm, diameter of the plate 21.5 cm; total weight 852 g.
Florence, marks of Giuseppe Codacci, 1825 – 41.

The Pucci di Barsento family is among the eldest and most influential families in Florence. As close advisors to the Medici since the 15th century, they produced many cardinals and important patrons of the arts. This small travel service is thought to originate from the estate of Marchese Orazio Pucci di Barsento (1880 – 1944), the father of the fashion designer Emilio Pucci.

Provenance

Presumably from the former collection of Court Councillor Dr. Ernst Marquardsen, Bad Kissingen; sold by Kunstauktion Altkunst G.m.b.H., Freiburg im Breisgau, 27th-29th November 1928; includes catalogue entry.

Literature

For this maker's mark cf.: Bemporad, Argenti Fiorentini, Florence 1993, vol. I, p. 406.