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ENTREPIECE
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silver, sculptural set consisting of five “Putti” between
“Vegetal motifs and garlands”, relief, beaded, chiselled
and engraved decoration “Royal arms of Portugal and Savoy”,
three intertwined baskets, the central one fixed and laterals
suspended and removable, accompanied by crystal globe with
silver lid with monogram of Queen D. Maria Pia, Augustin Pierre
Adolphe Veyrat maker’s mark (1849-1873), scalloped plateau
with sheet metal interior reinforcement based on wooden plate,
original case, French, small antique restorations, small faults
and defects in the fixation of two garlands and in one of the
plates with the shields, remarked on the day of the auction
of the possessions of Queen D. Maria Pia in 1912, with warranty
mark for imported pieces and Lisbon Javali mark (1887-1937).
Notes: 1 - This item can not be exported, being in course the
correspondent National Culture Heritage classification process.
As the auction of this centrepiece was in due course
communicated to the competent authorities, it was decided
to open a process with a view to their classification, applying
accordingly and immediately, the regime of classified pieces,
namely the impossibility of exporting.
2 - vd. VIDAL, Manuel Gonçalves; Fernando Moitinho
de Almeida-” Portuguese marks and Goldsmiths (1887 to 1993)”.
Lisbon: IN-CM, vol. II, paragraph 67 and 244A.
3 - The marriage between King D. Luís I and D. Maria Pia
of Savoy, held in 1862, represented the Union between the
Portuguese Royal House and the House of Savoy. D. Maria Pia
was the daughter of Archduchess Maria Adelaide of Habsburg-
Lorraine and Victor Emmanuel II, the first King of unified Italy.
For her wedding, a tableware with about 60 pieces, a flatware
with 194 pieces and a tea and coffee service of 6 elements,
tableware known as “silver wedding”, all with identical
decoration and showing the Royal Arms of Portugal and Savoy
in relief was commissioned from the French Goldsmith Augustin
Pierre Adolphe Veyrat - with shop in Rue de Malte 20, Paris.
This set that is exhibited almost entirely in the Ajuda National
Palace. In accordance with the law of July 1, 1862, the Queen
received an annual provision of 60,000 $ 000 reis, getting all
the expenses of her household, Ladies in waiting, servants and
personal expenses charged to this item. However with the
increasing inflation, the annual provision remained unchanged
over the years, caused it to become insufficient and that, in the
first decade of 1900, the Queen was obliged to contract various
loans, the most substantial of which near the Count of Burnay -
about 20,000 $ 000 reis.
Burnay died in 1909 and Queen D. Maria Pia in 1911. In July
1912, already in the Republican regime, it was held at the