About the Artwork
Chrismatory Ampulla
between 1790 and 1800
Pierre Huguet
1749-1817
Canadian
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Silver
Overall: 2 inches (5.1 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth, Allan and Warren Shelden Fund
80.9.2
Public Domain
Markings
Stamped, on outside just below lip and on lid: SC On underside: PH
Provenance
Parish Church of Saint-Constant (Laprairie, Quebec);Charles de Volpi (Quebec);
1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Charles de Volpi Collection of Canadian Silver. Sales cat., Phillips Ward-Price Ltd. Toronto, 1979, p. 35, no. 177 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Pierre Huguet, Chrismatory Ampulla, between 1790 and 1800, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth, Allan and Warren Shelden Fund, 80.9.2.
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