Oval Tureen

1787

Nicolas Fauconnier French, active from 1785

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Era of Revolution, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Oval Tureen

Artwork Date 1787

Artist Nicolas Fauconnier

Life Dates active from 1785

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Silver

Dimensions Overall: 12 × 18 3/4 × 13 5/8 inches (30.5 × 47.6 × 34.6 cm) Overall (tureen): 6 15/16 × 15 5/16 × 9 7/8 inches (17.6 × 38.9 × 25.1 cm) Overall (liner): 4 3/4 × 11 7/8 × 8 1/8 inches (12.1 × 30.2 × 20.6 cm) Overall (cover): 5 3/8 × 12 3/16 × 8 3/8 inches (13.7 × 31 × 21.3 cm)

Classification Silver

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

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

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 57.68

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Marks Warden's mark, on tureen: 1787/88 Charge mark, on tureen: A [crowned; H. Clavel] Maker's mark: N.F. [Nicolas Fauconnier; fleur de lis crowned; falcon and two grains] Mark, on liner: P [crowned with date, Paris 1788] Mark, on liner:A [crowned; under administration of H. Clavel] Mark, on liner: [fleur de lis crowned] N.F. [falcon and two grains] Mark, on cover: P [crowned with date, Paris 1788] Mark, on cover: A [crowned; under administration of H. Clavel] Mark, on cover: [fleur de lis crowned] N.F. [falcon and two grains]

Provenance

probably commissioned by Mikhail Kierdeja, created Count of Galicia in 1787. Estate Comtesse du Monstiers

Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva (Lisbon, Portugal)

Mme. Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva

1956, purchased by Elizabeth and Harvey Firestone, Jr. for the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Les Trésors de l'Orfèvrerie du Portugal. Exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Paris, 1954, no. 370 (pl. 179).

Grigault, Paul. "Late Eighteenth Century French Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 36, nos. 3/4 (1959-60): pp. 78-83, p. 81 (ill.).

Grigault, Paul. "Late Eighteenth Century Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Antiques 77, no. 2 (February 1960): p. 164 (fig. 3).

Detroit Institute of Arts Cat.

European Decorative Arts in the 18th Century. Exh.cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1961, p. 26 (ill.).

Albainy, T. "Eighteenth-Century French Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 73, no. 1/2 (1999): pp. 13-14, 23-24; p. 14 (fig. 5).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Nicolas Fauconnier, Oval Tureen, 1787, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 57.68.