About the Artwork
Candlestick
ca. 1755
Pierre Latour
about 1712-1762
French
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 10 5/8 × 5 11/16 × 5 1/8 inches (27 × 14.4 × 13 cm)
Silver
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Joseph H. Boyer Memorial Fund
62.179.2
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Mark, inside at the top of the stem and on the underside of the rim of the bobeche: [crowned shield with a duck/goose] [discharge mark for 1756-60] [Beuque 3544] Mark, inside at the top of the stem and on the underside of the rim of the bobeche: TOL [a fleur-de-lis above, above an E between two grains; Toulouse warden's mark]
Provenance
(J.J. Klejman, New York, New York, USA)
1962-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Pierre Latour, Candlestick, ca. 1755, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Joseph H. Boyer Memorial Fund, 62.179.2.
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