About the Artwork
Plate with Two Cherubs on an Ocre Ground
ca. 1725
Rouen Manufactories
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French
Unknown
Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)
Overall: 9 1/2 × 1 inches (24.1 × 2.5 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Sidney R. Knafel
2022.329
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
November 20, 1920, sold Collection Fromage, lot 82. December 24, 1931, sold Collection Maurice Roquigny, lot 84. December 2, 1961, sold (Galliera, Paris, France) auction Collection Jean Bloch, lot 115. June 18, 2008, sold (Sotheby’s, Paris, France) auction private collection, lot 540. (Galerie Christophe Perlès, Paris, France)
2014-2021, purchased by Sidney R. Knafel [1930-2021] (New York, New York, USA)
2022-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Chompret, Dr. J., et al. Répertoire de la faïence française, vol. 4. Paris, 1933, (pl. 98B).
Perlès, Christophe. French Faïence: The Sidney R. Knafel Collection. France, 2016, cat. no. 62.
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Rouen Manufactories, Plate with Two Cherubs on an Ocre Ground, ca. 1725, Faience (tin-glazed earthenware). Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, 2022.329.
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