Monteith, between 1789 and 1790

  • Henri Auguste, French, 1759-1816

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)

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

57.64.1

On View

  • Fashionable Living, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

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)

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).

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.