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Dish
French, Lille?
about 1740
Object Place: Europe, Lille, France
Medium/Technique
Metal; silver
Dimensions
1.9 cm (3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection
Accession Number1993.280.2
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 edge which is slightly more rectangular than that of its pair.
Marks
Marks illegible, its pair is illustrated in Helft, plate XXXVIII. Other: Guarantee mark used after 1838 for medium sized works: a small boar's head (Tardy, p. 173).
InscriptionsEngraved with AIF on the underneath.
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)