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Covered cup
French (Paris)
1669-70
Object Place: Europe, Paris, France
Medium/Technique
Metal; silver
Dimensions
Height x width: 5.1 × 15.2 × 10.1 cm (2 × 6 × 4 in.)
Credit Line
Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection
Accession Number1993.425a-b
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSilver
DescriptionTwo-handled shallow cup with cover, the cover with cut-card work in the form of acanthus leaves and snake-form handle. The handles on the cup are double scrolls set vertically, surmounted by graduated beads.
Marks
warden's mark: crowned A for Paris 1669-1670, on the edge of the cup (Bimbenet Privat, vol.I, 2002).
Duty mark: crowned A with three fleurs-de-lys, for Paris 1672, under base (Bimbenet-Privat, vol.I, 2002).
Undecipherable mark (partial): the superior part of a fleur-de-lys, crowned. probably the maker's mark, on the edge of the cup.
Duty mark: crowned A with three fleurs-de-lys, for Paris 1672, under base (Bimbenet-Privat, vol.I, 2002).
Undecipherable mark (partial): the superior part of a fleur-de-lys, crowned. probably the maker's mark, on the edge of the cup.
ProvenanceJean Bloch, Paris [?]; June 13, 1961, Palais Galliera, Bloch sale, lot 42; Jacques Helft, Paris (dealer); June 19, 1961, purchased by Elizabeth Parke Firestone, Akron, OH, and Newport, RI.