Porringer, ca. 1805

  • Jean Baptiste Piquette, American, 1779-1813

Silver

  • Overall: 2 × 11 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (5.1 × 29.5 × 16.8 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth and Allan Shelden Fund

61.7

Department

American Art before 1950

made for Bâby family [possibly Jean-Baptiste Bâby] (Detroit, Michiga, USA)

Bâby family members

John L. Russell (Montreal, Quebec)

1961-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Robinson, Francis W. “New Light on an Early Detroit Silversmith.” Bulletin of the DIA 40 (1960-1961): p. 23. Antiques 87 (1965): p. 323. Simmons, Walter E. "The Collector Looks at Detroit Silver." University Liggett Antiques Show. Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, 1973, p. 22. Fox, Ross. "French Canadian Silver." University Liggett Antiques Show. Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, 1975, p. 80 (fig. 7). Fox, Ross Allan C. Quebec and Related SIlver at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit,1978, pp. 114-116.

Jean Baptiste Piquette, Porringer, ca. 1805, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth and Allan Shelden Fund, 61.7.