About the Artwork
The Boar Hunt
ca. 1751
Jean Chabry (Artist) French, active 1749-1776 Vincennes Manufactory (Manufacturer) French
Soft-paste porcelain
Overall: 6 1/2 × 12 1/2 × 8 5/16 inches (16.5 × 31.8 × 21.1 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund; gifts from W. Hawkins Ferry, Henry Ford II, Mr. and Mrs. James Whitcomb, John L. Booth, Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, Mrs. Russell Alger, Henry Goldman, Mrs. Walter O. Briggs, and Mr. and Mrs. Trent McMath by exchange
1993.64
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, inscribed under base: Chabry
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Provenance
Christie's, London, June 10, 1986 (lot 258). [Armin B. Allen, Inc.], (Newport, Rhode Island)
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Exhibition of European Pottery and Porcelain. Exh. cat., Armin B. Allen Gallery. London, 1987, no. 8.
Darr, A. and T. Albainy. "Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 - 1999." The Burlington Magazine 142 (June 2000): 409, no. XIV (color ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
after a model by Jean Chabry; Vincennes Manufactory, The Boar Hunt, ca. 1751, soft-paste porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund; gifts from W. Hawkins Ferry, et al., 1993.64.
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