Ewer

between 1749 and 1750

Michel de la Pierre French, active 1737-1785

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Fashionable Living, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Ewer

Artwork Date between 1749 and 1750

Artist Michel de la Pierre

Life Dates active 1737-1785

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Silver

Dimensions Overall: 10 × 7 1/4 × 4 5/8 inches, 2 pounds (25.4 × 18.4 × 11.7 cm, 0.9 kg)

Classification Silver

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

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

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 57.73

Markings

Marks Mark: l [crowned, Paris 1749; under administration of Antoine l'Echaudel.] Marks: [fleur de lis crowned] M.P.D.L [Master silversmith Michel de la Pierre] [rock]

Provenance

by 1908, (Les fils de Leon Helft, Paris, France);
by 1912, Etienne Accary (Paris, France);
February 23-24, 1939, sold by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) lot 148;
by 1954, Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva (Lisbon, Portugal);
Mme. Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva (Lisbon, Portugal);
1956, purchased by Elizabeth and Harvey Firestone, Jr. for the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Les trésors de l'Orfèvrerie du Portugal. Exh. cat., Musée des Arts Decoratifs. Paris, 1954-1955, no. 366 (pl. 174).

Albainy, T. "Eighteenth-Century French Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 73, no. 1/2 (1999): p. 23 (fig. 13).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Michel de la Pierre, Ewer, between 1749 and 1750, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 57.73.