About the Artwork
Plate
ca. 1750
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French
French
Engraved silver
Overall: 1 1/16 × 11 3/8 × 11 1/4 inches (2.7 × 28.9 × 28.6 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
70.561
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Engraved, under bottom: GUY Engraved, on rim: [arms of Godefroy de Tonnancour in crowned scroll and foliate cartouche]
Stamped, twice under rim, in shaped cartouche: [fleur-de-lis] | PL | [star]
Provenance
made for Louis-Joseph Godefroy de Tonnancour (Trois-Rivieres, Quebec)
collection Guy family (Montreal, Quebec)
collection Pierre Leduc
Jean Octeau (Montreal, Quebec)
1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Fox, R. Quebec and Related Silver. Detroit, 1978, p. 29, no. 4 (fig 5, ill.). [as Paul Lambert]
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Credit Line for Reproduction
French, Plate, ca. 1750, engraved silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 70.561.
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