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Dinner plate

Jacques-Henri Alberti (1730–1795, master in 1764)

1772

Object PlaceStrasbourg, France

Medium/TechniqueMetal; silver

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

Accession number1993.470.17

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ClassificationsSilver

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Europe

InscriptionsMaker's Mark: Alberti in a rectangle (Helft, 1099-1100). Maison Commune: 1772:a crowned V (Helft, 1100). Other: Reconnaissance, 1750-1789: a crowned 13 (He lft, 1082); a small rectangle; Countermark used after 1838: parts of insects (Rosenberg, 5929).

Provenance1767, Elisabeth Auguste (1721-1794), Electress of Bavaria and the Palatinate; to her niece, Marie Anna (nee von Birkenfekt Zweibruken, 1753-1824), Duchess of Bavaria; to her son Pius Augustus, Duke in Bavaria (1808-1888); to his son Karl Theodore, Duke in Bavaria (1839-1909), to his daughter Marie-Gabriele, Crown Princess of Bavaria (1878-1912), to her husband Crown Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria (1869-1955). 1930, purchased by Jacques Helft, Paris. Elizabeth Parke Firestone (b. 1897 - d. 1990) and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. (b. 1898 - d. 1973), Akron, OH and Newport, RI; 1993 [see note 3]; gift of the estate of Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 26, 1993)