About the Artwork
Tureen with Lid and Stand
between 1729 and 1730
Thomas Germain
1673-1748
French
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 8 1/2 × 17 1/16 × 13 7/8 inches, 17 pounds 8 ounces (21.6 × 43.3 × 35.2 cm, 7.9 kg)
Silver
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund
55.183
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Warden's mark, struck on underside, on tureen: N [crowned;for 1729-30] Charge mark, struck on underside, on stand: A [crowned; for 1726-32] Marks, on the outer rim, on lid: A.B 1890 [Russian importation mark] Marks, engraved on inside of bowl, and at center of stand: [coat of arms of the Duke of Parma] [engraving postdates the acquisition of the tureen by the Duke of Parma in 1759]
Provenance
Louis-Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini [1716-1798] who succeeded to the title duc de Nivernais in 1730. by 1759, purchased by Bonnet (Paris, France) agent for Don Filippo, Duke of Parma [one of four tureens]
Don Filippo, Duke of Parma
Paul Demidoff [1839-1885]
March 15-April 10, 1880, Demidoff sale (San Donato) lot 1189)
Baron Jerome Pichon (Paris, France)
ca. 1890, (Russia). December 1952, auction sale of works of art recovered following World War II (Paris, France)
(Jacques Helft, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
December 1954, purchased by Elizabeth and Harvey Firestone, Jr. for the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Grigault, P. "A Tureen by Thomas Germain." Bulletin of the DIA 34, no. 3 (1954-55): pp. 66- 67; p. 66 (ill.).
French Taste in the 18th century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1956, cat. no. 590 a,b.
Babst, Germain. "Les Germains, Orfevres Sculpteurs du Roi" Etudes sur L'Orfèvrerie Française. Paris, 1887, p. 43.
Bremer-David, Charissa. “Of Cauliflower and Crayfish: Serving Vessels to Awaken the Palate.” In The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals. Edited by Marcia Reed. Los Angeles, 2015, p. 126 (fig. 3); pp. 132–133 (fig. 11).
Helft, J. "French Eighteenth-Century Silver," Apollo 87, no. 72 (February 1968): p. 168 (fig. 2).
Harvard Dictionnaire de l'Ameublement, 1878, T. III, p. 43.
Harvard Histoire de l'Orfèvrerie Française, 1896, p. 437 (ill.).
Le Corbeiller, C. "Robert-Joseph Auguste, Silversmith--and Sculptor?" Metropolitan Museum Journal 31 (1996): p. 211.
Perrin, C. François-Thomas Germain, orfèvre des rois. Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 1993, p. 139; pp. 136-37 (ill.).
Solodkoff, Alexander von. “The Rediscovery of a 1754 ‘Machine d’Argent’ by François-Thomas Germain.” Studies in the Decorative Arts 13, no. 2 (2006): pp. 98–99 (figs. 5–6).
Albainy, T. "Eighteenth-Century French Silver in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 73, no. 1/2 (1999): pp. 10-12, 21; p. 11 (fig. 2).
Bremer-David, Charissa. “Of Cauliflower and Crayfish: Serving Vessels to Awaken the Palate.” in The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals, ed. Marcia Reed. Los Angeles, 2015, p. 126 (fig. 3); pp. 132-133 (fig. 11).
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Thomas Germain, Tureen with Lid and Stand, between 1729 and 1730, silver . Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 55.183.
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