About the Artwork
Soap Dish and Cover
ca. 1740
Rouen Manufactories
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French
Unknown
Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)
Overall: 4 3/4 × 4 1/8 inches (12.1 × 10.5 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Sidney R. Knafel
2022.333
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
March 20, 1923, Collection Perrot auction, lot 220. with (Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, France). November 15, 1981, sold (Versailles) auction anonymous sale, lot 67. 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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Perlès, Christophe. French Faïence: The Sidney R. Knafel Collection. France, 2016, cat. no. 76.
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Rouen Manufactories, Soap Dish and Cover, ca. 1740, Faience (tin-glazed earthenware). Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, 2022.333.
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