Sunflower Dish, ca. 1746

  • Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, founded 1710

Hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold

  • Overall: 2 1/4 × 8 7/8 × 9 5/8 inches (5.7 × 22.5 × 24.4 cm)

Bequest of Ruth Nugent Head in memory of her mother, Anna E. Kresge, and her husband, Henry W. Nugent Head

F1985.101

Ruth Nugent Head (New York, New York, USA)

1985-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Darr, Alan Phipps. "European Sculpture and Decorative Arts," Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3, Annual Report (1986): pp. 22-24.

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Sunflower Dish, ca. 1746, hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Ruth Nugent Head in memory of her mother, Anna E. Kresge, and her husband, Henry W. Nugent Head, F1985.101.