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Dish
French, Lille?
about 1740
Object Place: Europe, Lille, France
Medium/Technique
Metal; silver
Dimensions
2 cm (13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection
Accession Number1993.280.1
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSilver
DescriptionOne of a pair of small shallow dishes. Partially chased with two rows of scallops or flutes, with a scalloped rim.
Marks
Marks illegible. One is a crowned MI with an S or an F(?), a grain below. Illustrated in Helft, plate XXXVIII.
InscriptionsEngraved with AIF on the bottom.
ProvenanceBy 1912, Felix Doistau (b. 1846 - d. 1936), Paris. By 1914, Jacques Helft, Paris. Elizabeth Parke Firestone (b. 1897 - d. 1990) and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. (b. 1898 - d. 1973), Akron, OH and Newport, RI; 1993 [see note 3]; gift of the estate of Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 26, 1993)