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Candlestick

(French, active 1712–1764)
1714–15
Object PlaceParis, France
Medium/TechniqueMetal; silver
Dimensions17.4 x 10.2 cm (6 7/8 x 4 in.)
Credit LineElizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection
Accession number1993.245.2
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSilver
Collections
InscriptionsThere is an engraved crest on the base.
Provenance1926, Deligand [see note 1]. May, 1952, sold by H. Bauer, Paris, 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)

NOTES:
[1] Lent to the Exposition d'Orfèvrerie Française Civile du XVIe siècle au début du XIXe (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, April 12- May 12, 1926), cat. no. 275.
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