Vase, ca. 1735

  • Johann Joachim Kändler, German, 1706-1775
  • Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, founded 1710

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

  • Overall: 14 3/4 × 9 3/4 × 7 1/8 inches (37.5 × 24.8 × 18.1 cm) Body: 11 1/16 × 9 3/4 × 7 1/8 inches (28.1 × 24.8 × 18.1 cm) Lid: 4 1/16 × 2 15/16 × 2 5/8 inches (10.3 × 7.5 × 6.7 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb

61.9.1

On View

  • Decorative Arts, Level 3, South
  • Decorative Arts, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Count Heinrich Graf von Brühl (Dresden, Germany) Catalina Von Pannwitz-Roth, "De Hartekamp," Heemstede, The Netherlands by 1949, Forsyth Wickes (New York, New York, USA)

(by 1961, Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, New York, USA)

purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with funds from Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb

von Falke, O. "Meissener Barockvasen." Pantheon 9 (February 1932): pp. 13, 56-58 (fig. 2). Masterpieces of European Porcelain. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1949, cat. 332, pl. IV. Bulletin of the DIA 40, nos. 3 and 4 (1960-61): pp. 59-62, p. 60 (ill.). Davidson, R. "Features." Antiques, January 1962, p. 320.

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory; after a model by Johann Joachim Kändler, Vase, ca. 1735, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold; silver, gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb, 61.9.1.