Sauce Boat with Stand, between 1786 and 1787

  • Henri Auguste, French, 1759-1816

Silver

  • Overall: 8 × 10 7/8 × 8 7/8 inches (20.3 × 27.6 × 22.5 cm)

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

57.65

On View

  • Fashionable Living: S330.1
  • Fashionable Living: S330.1

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)

Grigault, P. "Late Eighteenth Century Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Antiques 77, no. 2 (February 1960): p. 167 (fig. 8). Davis, F. French Silver 1450-1825. New York and Washington, 1970 (fig. 87). Nocq, H. Le Poincon de Paris, Tome I, p. 32. Albainy, T. "Eighteenth-Century French Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 73, no. 1/2 (1999): pp. 15-16, 25; p. 16 (fig. 10).

Henri Auguste, Sauce Boat with Stand, between 1786 and 1787, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 57.65.