Dish (one of a graduated set of seven)

Dish (one of a graduated set of seven) by Paul de Lamerie

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

Width: 18 5/8 in. (47.3 cm)

Classification

Metalwork-Silver

Culture

British, London

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of George D. Widener and Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon, 1958

Accession Number

58.7.25

About the Artist

Paul de Lamerie · 16881751

Paul de Lamerie was born on April 9, 1688, in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Dutch Republic, the son of Paul Souchay de la Merie, a French Huguenot nobleman who had fled France following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and subsequently served as an officer under William III of Orange. The family settled in London by 1691, and young Paul grew up in a community of skilled Huguenot craftsmen w...

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