Sauce Boat with Stand, between 1786 and 1787

  • Henri Auguste, French, 1759-1816

Silver

  • Overall: 8 × 10 7/8 × 8 7/8 inches (20.3 × 27.6 × 22.5 cm)

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

57.65

On View

  • Fashionable Living, Level 3, South
  • Fashionable Living, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Dukes of Cadaval (Lisbon, Portugal)

Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva (Lisbon, Portugal)

Mme Ricardo Espirito Santo Silva

1956, Elizabeth and Harvey Firestone, Jr.

1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Grigault, P. "Late Eighteenth Century Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Antiques 77, no. 2 (February 1960): p. 167 (fig. 8). Davis, F. French Silver 1450-1825. New York and Washington, 1970 (fig. 87). Nocq, H. Le Poincon de Paris, Tome I, p. 32. Albainy, T. "Eighteenth-Century French Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 73, no. 1/2 (1999): pp. 15-16, 25; p. 16 (fig. 10).

Henri Auguste, Sauce Boat with Stand, between 1786 and 1787, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 57.65.