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Milk-pot

French (Paris)
1780
Object Place: Europe, Paris, France

Medium/Technique Metal; silver
Dimensions Weight: 6 oz., 11.4 cm (0.37 lb., 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Collection
Accession Number1993.297
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSilver

DescriptionMilk-pot (handle inside)
Provenance1926, MM. Léon Helft fils, Paris [see note 1]. By 1953, 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] Lent to the Exposition d'Orfèvrerie Française Civile du XVIe siècle au début du XIXe (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, April 12- May 12, 1926), cat. no. 462.