Silver-gilt milk-jug

Ambroise-Nicolas Cousinet (French, master 1745, died 1788)

1779–80

Object PlaceParis, France

Medium/Techniquemetal; silver

Dimensions9.2 x 12 cm (3 5/8 x 4 3/4 in.)

Credit LineElizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection

Accession number1993.286

On View

On view

ClassificationsSilver

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceBy 1900, Madame Leon Helft. By 1910, Bernard Franck. By 1926, Collection Puiforcat [see note 1]. January 11, 1960, sold by S. J. Phillips, London, to Elizabeth Parke Firestone (1897-1990) and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. (1898-1973), Akron, OH and Newport, RI; 1993; gift of the Estate of Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. (Accession date: May 26, 1993)

NOTES:
[1] Exhibited in 1926 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, cat. #465.