Bowl with Stand, late 18th century

  • French

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

  • Overall: 15 1/4 inches (38.7 cm) Overall (bowl): 3 5/8 × 10 5/8 inches (9.2 × 27 cm) Overall (figures): 8 1/2 inches (21.6 cm) Overall (base): 4 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (10.8 × 26.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund

48.166

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.).

French, Bowl with Stand, late 18th century, marble (Brèche de Médous?), gilt bronze, porphyry. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund, 48.166.