NAPLES, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY Gilded silver sugar...
NAPLES, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY
Gilded silver sugar bowl with saucer (zuccheriera con piatto). Circular in shape, with alternating decorations of fleurs-de-lis and drapery against a background of horizontal lines repeated on the saucer; the two movable rings serving as handles emerge from the mouths of lion heads.
The lid is topped with a pine cone.
Silversmith: Gennaro IACCARINO, in full. This silversmith created various works found in private collections beginning in 1830, the year from which his activity is attested by archival documents.
Southern Italian hallmark from 1832 onward: woman’s head in profile, N8
Weight: 977 g—sugar bowl: height 13.5 cm—base: diameter 20.3 cm
Reference work: *Tre secoli di argenti napoletani*, Catalog of the exhibition at Castel Sant’Elmo from April 22 to May 2, 1988
NAPLES, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY
Gilded silver sugar bowl with saucer (zuccheriera con piatto). Circular in shape, with alternating decorations of fleurs-de-lis and drapery against a background of horizontal lines repeated on the saucer; the two movable rings serving as handles emerge from the mouths of lion heads.
The lid is topped with a pine cone.
Silversmith: Gennaro IACCARINO, in full. This silversmith created various works found in private collections beginning in 1830, the year from which his activity is attested by archival documents.
Southern Italian hallmark from 1832 onward: woman’s head in profile, N8
Weight: 977 g—sugar bowl: height 13.5 cm—base: diameter 20.3 cm
Reference work: *Tre secoli di argenti napoletani*, Catalog of the exhibition at Castel Sant’Elmo from April 22 to May 2, 1988
