Cadaval's silver toilete set - Detroit Institute of Arts (EUA)

Cadaval's silver toilete set

Creator

Etienne Pollet (French, active 1715 - 1751) and others

Date

1738/1739

Credit

Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund

Provenance
Probably commissioned ca. 1738 by Jaime de Mello, 3rd Duke of Cadaval of Portugal, or by Louis of Lorraine, prince de Lambesc, whose daughter Henriette married the Duke of Cadaval in May 1739; by descent, the family of the Dukes of Cadaval, Lisbon (until 1931); Jacques Helft (dealer), Paris; purchased in 1952 by Elizabeth and Harvey Firestone, Jr. for the Detroit Institute of Arts.