About the Artwork
Oval Tureen
1787
Nicolas Fauconnier
active from 1785
French
Unknown
Silver
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)
Silver
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund
57.68
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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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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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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Nicolas Fauconnier, Oval Tureen, 1787, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 57.68.
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