About the Artwork
Madame Dacier
between 1780 and 1800
Wedgwood Pottery
established 1759
English
Unknown
Blue and white jasperware with gold
Overall: 4 7/8 × 3 3/4 × 7/8 inches (12.4 × 9.5 × 2.2 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman D. Jordan
51.236
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, incised in script, on back to left of holes: Mad. Dacier.
Marked, impressed on back: WEDGWOOD
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Norman D. Jordan
1952-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Wedgwood catalogue, Section IV: Divines, Artists, Antiquaries, Poets, Class X: Heads of Illustrious Moderns. 1771, no. 44.
Mankowitz, W. Wedgwood. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1953, p. 252.
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Wedgwood Pottery, Madame Dacier, between 1780 and 1800, blue and white jasperware with gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman D. Jordan, 51.236.
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