About the Artwork
Candelabrum
between 1732 and 1734
Thomas Germain
1673-1748
French
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 17 × 8 × 9 inches (43.2 × 20.3 × 22.9 cm)
Silver
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund
56.85.1
Public Domain
Markings
Maker's marks, on bottom: [three marks] Maker's marks, on the outer rim: [two marks] Mark, on nozzle: 349 Mark, engraved, on burnished rim of the base: [antique head in profile, surmounted by a crown (?)]
Provenance
Lionel Tollemache [1708-1770], 4th Earl of Dysart (Ham House, Richmond, England)
by descent in the Tollemache family (Ham House, Richmond, England)
1955, J. Trevor and Sons (London, England)
Jean-Louis Bonnefoy, [Au Vieux Paris] (Paris, France)
1956-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Davis, F. French Silver 1450-1825. New York and Washington, 1970, (fig. 164).
Babst, Germain. Les Germain. Paris, 1887, frontispiece and p. 56.
French Taste in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1956, p. 103, no. 591a-b.
Helft, Jacques. Treasure Hunt, Memoirs of an Antique Dealer. London, 1957, pl. 9b.
Recent Aquisitions 1991. Exh. cat., Partridge Fine Arts PLC. London, 1991, no. 5 and pp. 11-13.
Fuhring, Peter. "Les deux girandoles d'or de Louis XV par Thomas Germain chefs-d'oeuvres du Rococo." Revue de l'art (1992) no. 95.
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Thomas Germain, Candelabrum, between 1732 and 1734, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 56.85.1.
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