About the Artwork
Bacchante with Dog
ca. 1750
Giovanni Battista Foggini (Artist) Italian, 1652-1725 Doccia Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer) Italian
Hard paste porcelain
Overall: 13 × 7 × 5 1/2 inches (33 × 17.8 × 14 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
1990.261
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Marks, in red, on back: 1990.261
Provenance
Leonardo Lapiciarella (Florence, Italy)
sold by (Armin B. Allen, London, England and New York, New York, USA)
1990-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Darr, A.P. "The Figure Revisited: Early Doccia Porcelain Sculptures in Detroit and its Development in 18th Century Italy" in The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar. London, June 1994.
Darr, A.P. "Innovations during the twilight of Florence: eighteenth century sculpture in Doccia porcelain, in Francesco Robba and the Venitian Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century." Papers from and International Symposium, Ljubljana, October 16-18 1998, ed. J. Hofler, 2000, pp. 101,104 (fig. 15).
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, II, cat. 168.
Darr, Alan Phipps. "The Doccia Porcelain Sculpture Collection in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Amici di Doccia, Quaderni, no. 8 (2014-2015): 32–84, pp. 66-67 (ill.).
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after a model by Giovanni Battista Foggini; Doccia Porcelain Factory, Bacchante with Dog, ca. 1750, hard paste porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1990.261.
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