About the Artwork
Porringer
ca. 1805
Jean Baptiste Piquette
1779-1813
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 2 × 11 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (5.1 × 29.5 × 16.8 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth and Allan Shelden Fund
61.7
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Stamped, underneath, each in rectangle: BP, PIQUETE
Provenance
made for Bâby family [possibly Jean-Baptiste Bâby] (Detroit, Michiga, USA)
Bâby family members
John L. Russell (Montreal, Quebec)
1961-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Robinson, Francis W. “New Light on an Early Detroit Silversmith.” Bulletin of the DIA 40 (1960-1961): p. 23.
Antiques 87 (1965): p. 323.
Simmons, Walter E. "The Collector Looks at Detroit Silver." University Liggett Antiques Show. Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, 1973, p. 22.
Fox, Ross. "French Canadian Silver." University Liggett Antiques Show. Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, 1975, p. 80 (fig. 7).
Fox, Ross Allan C. Quebec and Related SIlver at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit,1978, pp. 114-116.
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Jean Baptiste Piquette, Porringer, ca. 1805, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth and Allan Shelden Fund, 61.7.
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