Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
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Pierre Huguet
Chrismatory Ampulla, between 1790 and 1800
silver
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Details
Artist Pierre Huguet, Canadian, 1749-1817
Title
  • Chrismatory Ampulla
Date between 1790 and 1800
Medium silver
Dimensions Overall: 2 inches (5.1 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth, Allan and Warren Shelden Fund
Accession Number 80.9.2
Department American Art before 1950
Not On View
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Marks Stamped, on outside just below lip and on lid: SC
On underside: PH
Provenance
Parish Church of Saint-Constant (Laprairie, Quebec);
Charles de Volpi (Quebec);
1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
The Charles de Volpi Collection of Canadian Silver. Sales cat., Phillips Ward-Price Ltd. Toronto, 1979, p. 35, no. 177 (ill.).