Ciborium, ca. 1852

  • Francois Sasseville, Canadian, 1797-1864

Silver

  • Overall: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth, Allan and Warren Shelden Fund

74.3

Department

American Art before 1950

Stamped, twice under foot, in oval: FS

Scratched, under foot: 1852 Alian cure de Bonaventure 1852

Church of Saint-Bonaventure d'Hamilton (Bonaventure County, Gaspe, Quebec, Canada

S. Breitman Antiques Ltd. (Westmount, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

1974-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 53 (1974): pp. 57, 84. Fox, Ross Allen C. Quebec and Related Silver at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1978, pp. 134-135 (fig. 57).

Francois Sasseville, Ciborium, ca. 1852, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth, Allan and Warren Shelden Fund, 74.3.