Candelabrum, between 1732 and 1734

  • Thomas Germain, French, 1673-1748

Silver

  • Overall: 17 × 8 × 9 inches (43.2 × 20.3 × 22.9 cm)

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

56.85.1

On View

  • Fashionable Living, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Lionel Tollemache [1708-1770], 4th Earl of Dysart (Ham House, Richmond, England)

by descent in the Tollemache family (Ham House, Richmond, England)

1955, J. Trevor and Sons (London, England)

Jean-Louis Bonnefoy, [Au Vieux Paris] (Paris, France)

1956-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Davis, F. French Silver 1450-1825. New York and Washington, 1970, (fig. 164). Babst, Germain. Les Germain. Paris, 1887, frontispiece and p. 56. French Taste in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1956, p. 103, no. 591a-b. Helft, Jacques. Treasure Hunt, Memoirs of an Antique Dealer. London, 1957, pl. 9b. Recent Aquisitions 1991. Exh. cat., Partridge Fine Arts PLC. London, 1991, no. 5 and pp. 11-13. Fuhring, Peter. "Les deux girandoles d'or de Louis XV par Thomas Germain chefs-d'oeuvres du Rococo." Revue de l'art (1992) no. 95.

Thomas Germain, Candelabrum, between 1732 and 1734, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 56.85.1.