About the Artwork
Covered Bowl
1787
Antoine Boullier
active ca. 1775 - 1811
French
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 2 5/16 × 4 3/8 × 3 1/8 inches (5.9 × 11.1 × 7.9 cm) Overall (bowl): 1 1/8 × 4 3/8 × 3 1/8 inches (2.9 × 11.1 × 7.9 cm) Overall (cover): 1 3/4 × 3 inches (4.4 × 7.6 cm)
Silver
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund
57.72
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Mark: P [crowned with date, Paris 1787] Mark: A [crowned, under administration of H. Clavel] Mark: [fleur-de-lis crowned] AB [master silversmith Antoine Boullier] [two grains and a tower]
Provenance
1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Les trésors de l'Orfèvrerie du Portugal. Exh. cat., Musée des Arts Decoratifs. Paris, 1954-1955, possibly no. 360 (pl. 169).
Grigaut, P. "Late Eighteenth Century French Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 39, no. 3/4 (1959-60): p. 83; p. 82 (ill.).
Grigaut, P. "Late Eighteenth Century Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection," Antiques 77, no. 2 (February 1960): p. 167 (fig. 9).
Albainy, T. "Eighteenth-Century French Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 73, no. 1/2 (1999): p. 24 (fig. 14).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Antoine Boullier, Covered Bowl, 1787, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 57.72.
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