About the Artwork
Basin
ca. 1770
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active 1738 - 1770
French
French
Glazed earthenware
Overall: 3 7/16 × 15 9/16 × 11 5/8 inches (8.7 × 39.5 × 29.5 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, General Endowment Fund
56.73.B
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Mrs. Marguerite Glover [The Questers] New York, New York, USA)
1956-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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French Taste in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1956, pp. 68 (ill.), 70, no. 247.
Harriman, Virginia. "A Distinctive Group of French Faience." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 36, no. 4 (1956–1957): 85–88, pp. 86–88 (ill.).
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Olerys and Laugier, Moustiers, Basin, ca. 1770, glazed earthenware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Endowment Fund, 56.73.B.
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