Bowl with Stand, ca. 1790

  • French

Marble (brèche de médous?), gilt bronze, porphyry

  • Overall: 15 5/8 × 10 3/4 inches (39.7 × 27.3 cm) Overall (bowl): 3 1/2 × 10 13/16 inches (8.9 × 27.5 cm) Overall (figures): 8 1/2 × 8 × 7 1/2 inches (21.6 × 20.3 × 19.1 cm) Overall (base): 4 3/16 × 10 3/4 inches (10.6 × 27.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund

48.165

On View

  • Era of Revolution, Level 3, South
  • Era of Revolution, Level 3, South
  • Era of Revolution, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

(Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., Inc, New York, New York, USA)

1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Payne, E. "A Pair of Porphery Bowls." Bulletin of the DIA 28, no. 2 (1949): pp. 47-48, p. 47 (ill.). Sychev, Igor. Russian Bronze. Moscow, 2003, p. 89. Sammlung Stroganoff Leningrad. Sales cat., Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus. Berlin, May 6, 1931, no. 147-148.

possibly French, Bowl with Stand, ca. 1790, marble (Brèche de Médous?), gilt bronze, porphyry. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund, 48.165.