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The Empire style manifested in France with the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, during the first two decades of the 19th century. Inspired from Neoclassicism, it involved architecture, interior design and furnishings and as well visual and decorative arts, enhancing the much sought-after symmetry of ancient times, with patterns and ornaments that were not only of Greek and Roman origin, but as well Egyptian: small palm-trees, leaves, eagles, dolphins, winged lions and sphinxes, bees and swans.
The Impero collection by Ricci draws on that sumptuous age, creating objects of extremely sophisticated execution, unequalled tokens of our master silversmiths’ taste and virtuosity.
The bowl from the Impero collection features an exquisitely elegant detail in the two winged swans standing out as handles. The swan was the favourite deocorative motif of Carolina Beauharnais, Napoleon’s wife and the empress of France, and it was an animal symbolizing femininity.
