About the Artwork
Fruit Basket
between 1770 and 1772
Bonnin and Morris Factory
1770 - 1772
American
Unknown
Soft paste porcelain
Overall: 2 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (6 × 17.1 cm)
Ceramics
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
70.836
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Mark, on bottom, in blue: Z
Provenance
Mrs. William A. Burnett
Whitehead Family (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hood, G. Bonnin and Morris of Philadelphia. Chapel Hill, 1972 (figs. 33-34).
Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. American Porcelain:1770-1920. New York, 1989, pp. 72-74.
Kirtley, Alexandra Alevizatos. Catalogue Raissone of Bonnin and Morris Porcelain. Ceramics in America 2007. Milwaukee, 2007, pp. 252-257 (pls. 8, 8.2, 8.3).
Hood, Graham. Bonnin and Morris of Philadelphia. Repr. Ceramics in America 2007. Milwaukee, 2007 (fig. 21).
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Bonnin and Morris Factory, Fruit Basket, between 1770 and 1772, soft paste porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 70.836.
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