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An Important Pair of Italian Soup Tureens with Original Leather Cases, made in Turin, Circa 1765. Now at Rienzi in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts,Houston.

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An Important Pair of Italian Soup Tureens with Original Leather Cases, made in Turin, Circa 1765. Now at Rienzi in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts,Houston.


An Important Pair of Italian Soup Tureens with Original Leather Cases, made in Turin, Circa 1765.
Maker’s mark of IP, under an image of St John in an oval lozenge.

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- Samuel Tscharner (1716-1800). 
- Collection Friedrich von Tscharner (1868–1952), Berne. 
- By succession, Swiss private collection.
 

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An Important Pair of Italian Soup Tureens with Original Leather Cases, made in Turin, Circa 1765.
Maker’s mark of IP, under an image of St John in an oval lozenge.
1st Tureen with assay master’s mark of Francesco Pagliani (1775-1816) and counter assay master’s mark of Carlo Micha (1759-1787).
2nd Tureen with assay master’s mark of Giovanni Battista Carrone (1753-1778) with counter assay master’s mark of Bartolomeo Bernardi (1779-1816).

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