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Dinner plate
Jean-Louis Imlin III (1722–1768, master in 1746)
French (Strasbourg)
1767
Object Place: Europe, Strasbourg, France
Medium/Technique
Metal; silver
Credit Line
Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection
Accession Number1993.470.11
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSilver
DescriptionOne from a set of eighteen shaped circular dinner plates, the rim with overlapping laurel and ovolo at intervals, the borders engraved with a coronet and Electoral bonnet, fourteen by Jean-Louis III Imlin and four by Jacques-Henri Alberti.
InscriptionsMaker's Mark: IMLIN in a rectangle (Helft, 1096). Maison Commune: 1767: a crowned Q (Helft, 1092). Other: Reconnaissance, 1750-1789: a crowned 13 (Helft, 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)