Garden Seat

ca. between 1848 and 1850

A.W.N. Pugin, Artist Minton and Company, Manufacturer

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Title Garden Seat

Artwork Date ca. between 1848 and 1850

Makers A.W.N. Pugin (Artist) English, 1812-1852 Minton and Company (Manufacturer) English, established 1793

Medium Glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration

Dimensions Overall: 19 × 14 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (48.3 × 37.5 × 35.2 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund; gift of W. Hawkins Ferry by exchange

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1994.6

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Provenance

Private collection. November 30, 1993, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) Applied Arts from 1880, lot 347 [bought in]. 1994-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Sotheby's (London), "Applied Arts from 1880 including Arts and Crafts, Art nouveau and Art Deco," 30 November 1993, p. 74, lot 347; p. 61 (ill)

C. Gere & M. Whiteway, Nineteenth-Century Design From Pugin to Mackintosh (London & New York, 1993), p. 53; pl. 50 (ill)

P. Atterbury & C. Wainwright (eds.), Pugin: A Gothic Passion (New Haven & London, 1994), pp. 151-152; p. 152, fig. 285 (ill)

P. Atterbury, ed., A.W.N. Pugin: Master of Gothic Revival, exh. cat. (New Haven & London, 1995), cat. no. 121, p. 365

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A.W.N. Pugin; Minton and Company, Garden Seat, ca. between 1848 and 1850, glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund; gift of W. Hawkins Ferry by exchange, 1994.6.