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Sundial Case

(French, working about 1685–1720)
about 1740
Object PlaceParis, France
Credit LineElizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection
Accession number1993.313b
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSilver
Collections
ProvenanceJuly 27, 1955, sold by the Museum Silver Shop, Inc., New York, to Elizabeth Parke Firestone (b. 1897 - d. 1990) and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. (b. 1898 - d. 1973), Akron, OH and Newport, RI; 1993; gift of the estate of Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 26, 1993)
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