Pedestal Plate

between 1738 and 1741

Johann Friedrich Eberlein, Artist Johann Joachim Kändler, Artist Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Manufacturer

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Title Pedestal Plate

Artwork Date between 1738 and 1741

Makers Johann Friedrich Eberlein (Artist) German, 1696-1749 Johann Joachim Kändler (Artist) German, 1706-1775 Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) German, founded 1710

Medium Hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold; silver, gold

Dimensions Overall: 4 3/16 × 11 1/4 inches (10.6 × 28.6 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II

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. 57.39

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Marks Marks, impressed on the underside: [Maltese Cross; former's mark]

Provenance

(Rosenberg and Stiebel) (New York, New York, USA)

Mr. Henry Ford II [1917–1987] and Mrs. Anne McDonnell Ford [1920–1996] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1957-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Albiker, C. Die Meissener Porzellantiere Im 18. Jahrhundert. Berlin, 1959, no. 277, pl. LXIX

Schnorr von Carolsfeld, L. Porzellan der Europaischen Fabriken Des 18: Bibliothek fur Kunst und Antiquitatensammler, bd 3. Berlin, 1912, no. 32, p. 6 (ill.).

Schnorr von Carolsfeld, L. Porzellan der Europaischen Fabriken: Bibliothek fur Kunst und Antiquitatensammler, bd 3. Braunschweig, 1956, p. 119, no. 68 (ill.).

Grigault, Paul L. "Two Pieces from the Meissen 'Swan Service.'" Bulletin of the DIA 36, no. 3 (1956/57): pp. 66-67, p. 67 (ill.).

Sales cat., Sotheby's. New York, June 26, 1956, no. 118 (ill.). [as "Property of a Lady" bt. Weinberg.]

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Meissen Porcelain Manufactory; after a model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein; after a model by Johann Joachim Kändler, Pedestal Plate, between 1738 and 1741, hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold; silver, gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II, 57.39.