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Dish Warmer, between 1789 and 1790

  • Henri Auguste, French, 1759-1816

Silver, wood

  • Overall (dish washer): 4 7/8 × 10 3/8 × 7 1/2 inches (12.4 × 26.4 × 19.1 cm) Overall (alcohol container): 2 5/8 × 7 1/8 × 3 1/8 inches (6.7 × 18.1 × 7.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund

57.63

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European Sculpture and Dec Arts

1925, Duc de Cadaval. 1945, Coll. Ricardo Espirito Santo. 1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Les trésors de l'Orfèvrerie du Portugal. Exh. cat., Musée des Arts Decoratifs. Paris, 1954-1955, possibly no. 352.

Henri Auguste, Dish Warmer, between 1789 and 1790, silver, wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 57.63.