Goat and Bee Jug

between 1745 and 1749

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory English, established ca. 1743/1745

On View

Fashionable Living, Level 3, South Wing

Goat and Bee Jug: 1 of Collection Gallery

Goat and Bee Jug: 2 of Collection Gallery

Goat and Bee Jug: 3 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

This rare cream jug, decorated with two reclining goats and a small bee, is one of the earliest compositions from the first period of production at the Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory in London. The luminous vessel is made from soft-paste porcelain, which was developed by European manufacturers to replicate the translucent effects of hard-paste porcelain from China (which was made using the rare mineral kaolin). Chelsea was one of the first English factories to successfully produce soft-paste porcelain. The Huguenot silversmith Nicholas Sprimont, the factory’s founder, created a prototype form in silver, which inspired the manufactory to produce this desirable but less expensive form in the popular white and later decorated porcelain model.

Title Goat and Bee Jug

Artwork Date between 1745 and 1749

Artist Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Life Dates established ca. 1743/1745

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Soft-paste porcelain

Dimensions Overall: 4 3/8 × 3 1/4 × 2 inches (11.1 × 8.3 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Visiting Committee for European Sculpture and Decorative Arts in honor of Elizabeth DuMouchelle

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. 2000.93

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(Klaber and Klaber, London, England)

2000-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Darr, Alan. P. and Brian Gallagher. "Recent acquisitions (2000-2006) of European sculpture and decorative arts at The Detroit Institute of Arts." The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1251 (June 2007): p. 451, pl. VIII (ill.).

You, Yao-Fen. “From Novelty to Necessity: The Europeanization of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2016, p. 57; 61 (ill.); 127, cat. 65.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, Goat and Bee Jug, between 1745 and 1749, soft-paste porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Visiting Committee for European Sculpture and Decorative Arts in honor of Elizabeth DuMouchelle, 2000.93.