About the Artwork
Oval Tureen
1787
Nicolas Fauconnier
active from 1785
French
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 12 × 18 3/4 × 13 1/2 inches (30.5 × 47.6 × 34.3 cm)
Silver
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund
57.69
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Marked, Paris 1788: P [crowned with date] Marked, under administration of H. Clavel: A [crowned] Marked, master silversmith Henri Auguste: [fleurs de lis crowned] N.F. [a falcon and two grains]
Provenance
R. Espirito Santo (Lisbon, Portugal)
1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Les Tresors de L'Orfevrerie du Portugal. Exh. cat. [?], Musee des Arts Decoratifs. Paris, 1954-5, no. 370, pl. 179.
Grigault, P. "Late Eighteenth Century French Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection," Bulletin of the DIA 39, no. 3/4 (1959-60): pp. 78-83.
Grigaut, P. "Late Eighteenth Century Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection," Antiques 77, no. 2 (February 1960): p. 164, (fig. 3).
European Decorative Arts in the 18th Century. cat., DIA. 1961, p. 26 (ill.).
Albainy, T. "Eighteenth-Century French Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection," Bulletin of the DIA 73, no. 1/2 (1999): pp. 13-14, 23-24; p. 14, (fig. 5) (ill.).
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Nicolas Fauconnier, Oval Tureen, 1787, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 57.69.
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