About the Artwork
Dish
ca. 1955
John A. Foster
1900 - 1980
American
Unknown
Porcelain and lignum vitae
Overall (dish): 3/4 × 3 3/8 inches (1.9 × 8.6 cm) Overall (stand): 2 1/16 × 2 1/8 inches (5.2 × 5.4 cm)
Ceramics
Contemporary Art after 1950
Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass
58.295
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Markings
Signed on bottom: JF 3/33.
Inscribed on wood stand: PAU CHENG (means thing of unique value or character)
Provenance
1958-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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John A. Foster, Dish, ca. 1955, porcelain and lignum vitae. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass, 58.295.
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