About the Artwork
Sauce Tureen and Cover
ca. 1798
John and Tunis Denise
established 1798
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 6 1/4 × 8 1/4 × 4 1/2 inches (15.9 × 21 × 11.4 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
41.91
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Engraved: R M W
Maker's mark stamped, on bottom and inside the cover: J & T D | [sheaf of wheat] [eagle]
Provenance
1941-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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John and Tunis Denise, Sauce Tureen and Cover, ca. 1798, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 41.91.
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