Sugar Tongs, ca. 1795

  • Michel Forton, Canadian, 1754-1816

Silver

  • Overall: 5 3/8 × 1 3/8 × 3/4 inches (13.7 × 3.5 × 1.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth, Allen and Warren Shelden Fund

79.20

Department

American Art before 1950

Stamped, twice on underside, in rectangle: MF Stamped, once on underside: [lion passant]

Engraved, inside crest of tongs: JN

private collection (London, England). 1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Michel Forton, Sugar Tongs, ca. 1795, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth, Allen and Warren Shelden Fund, 79.20.