Second-course dish with cover

François-Thomas Germain (French, 1726–1791)

1757

Object PlaceParis, France

Medium/TechniqueMetal; silver

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

Accession number1993.495.1a-b

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ClassificationsSilver hollowware

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Inscriptionsstruck with St. Petersburg marks for 176? Numbered 77 Du no. 2 777Provenance1757, ordered by Empress Elisabeth (b. 1709 - d. 1762) as part of the "Parisian" silver service for the Imperial Court of Russia; by descent within the Russian Imperial family and, probably by about 1930, dispersed and sold [see note]. March 19, 1971, sold by S. J. Phillips, Ltd., London, 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)

NOTE: Several pieces of silver from the Parisian service, which was transferred to the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, were sold about 1930, when many sales from Russian state museums took place. Other pieces had been dispersed as early as the nineteenth century. It is not known precisely when this dish was removed from the silver service. See Christiane Perrin, François Thomas Germain: Orfèvre des Rois (Paris, 1993), pp. 203-209.