About the Artwork
Monteith
between 1789 and 1790
Henri Auguste
1759-1816
French
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Silver
Overall: 5 3/8 × 15 13/16 × 9 7/16 inches, 4 pounds 12 ounces (13.7 × 40.2 × 24 cm, 2.2 kg)
Silver
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund
57.64.1
Public Domain
Markings
Warden's mark: 1789/90 Maker's stamp, struck on underside of foot: H.A. [Henri Auguste; fleur de lis crowned; two palm leaves] Engraved on the underside of the base: [coat of arms of the Duke of Cadaval]
Provenance
Dukes of Cadaval (Lisbon, Portugal);Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva (Lisbon, Portugal);
Mme Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva;
1956, Elizabeth and Harvey Firestone, Jr.;
1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Les trésors de l'Orfèvrerie du Portugal. Exh. cat., Musée des Arts Decoratifs. Paris, 1954-1955, no. 351.
Grigaut, Paul. "Late Eighteenth Century French Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 36, nos. 3/4 (1959-60): pp. 78-83, p. 82 (ill.).
Davis, F. French Silver1450-1825. New York and Washington, 1970 (fig. 109).
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Henri Auguste, Monteith, between 1789 and 1790, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 57.64.1.
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