Teapot
Adrien Dachery
(master in 1730)
1755–58
Object PlaceSt. Quentin, France
Medium/TechniqueSilver and ebonized wood
Dimensions19.5 cm (7 11/16 in.)
Credit LineElizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection
Accession number1993.249
On View
On viewClassificationsSilver
Collections
ProvenanceDecember 9-18, 1907, Henri Chasles sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris. 1936, Hector Petin, Paris [see note 1]. 1938, anonymous collection [see note 2]. April 24, 1951, sold by Au Vieux Paris (gallery), 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] According to notes in the MFA curatorial file, this was lent by Hector Petin to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, in 1936. [2] Lent to the exhibition "Three Centuries of French Domestic Silver," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1938, cat. no. 393 (as "formerly in the Hector Petin collection").
NOTES:
[1] According to notes in the MFA curatorial file, this was lent by Hector Petin to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, in 1936. [2] Lent to the exhibition "Three Centuries of French Domestic Silver," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1938, cat. no. 393 (as "formerly in the Hector Petin collection").
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about 1860
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