About the Artwork
Set of Ampullae
between 1790 and 1800
Pierre Huguet
1749-1817
Canadian
Unknown
Silver
various dimensions
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth, Allan and Warren Shelden Fund
V2014.21
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
(80.9.3)Stamped, on outside just below lip and on lid: OC
(80.9.1)Underside of box: PH MONTREAL PH (80.9.2)Stamped, on outside just below lip and on lid: SC (80.9.3)Stamped, on underside: PH
Provenance
Parish Church of Saint-Constant (Laprairie, Quebec)
Charles de Volpi (Quebec)
1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Charles de Volpi Collection of Canadian Silver. Sales cat., Phillips Ward-Price Ltd. Toronto, 1979, p. 35, no. 177 (ill.).
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