Sauceboat and stand

Jean-Nicolas Boulanger (Master 1783; still working 1809)

1788

Object PlaceParis, France

Medium/TechniqueMetal; silver

Dimensions21.8 x 26.1 x 17.2 cm (8 9/16 x 10 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)

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

Accession number1993.355a-b

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ClassificationsSilver

Collections

Europe

Provenance1912, Leon Helft (dealer), Paris. 1915, Jean Boivin, Paris. By 1920, David David-Weill (b. 1871 - d. 1952), Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine [see note 1]; probably sold by David-Weill to Jacques Helft (dealer), New York [see note 2]; June, 1959, sold by Helft 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] The early twentieth-century provenance is taken from information in the files of Elizabeth and Harvey Firestone, according to which David David-Weill lent the sauceboat and stand to the "Exposition d'orfèvrerie française civile du XVIe siècle au débout du XIXe" (Paris, Musée des arts decoratifs, April 12 - May 12, 1926), cat. no. 224.

[2] On David-Weill's relationship with Jacques Helft, see Hector Feliciano: The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art (New York, 1997), pp. 88-89.