Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
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after a model by Giovanni Battista Foggini
Bacchante with Dog, ca. 1750
hard paste porcelain
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Artist after a model by Giovanni Battista Foggini, Italian, 1652-1725
Manufacturer Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian
Title
  • Bacchante with Dog
Date ca. 1750
Medium hard paste porcelain
Dimensions Overall: 13 × 7 × 5 1/2 inches (33 × 17.8 × 14 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
Accession Number 1990.261
Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts
On View European: Influence of Ancient Greeks and Romans, Level 2 (see map)
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Marks Marks, in red, on back: 1990.261
Provenance
Leonardo Lapiciarella (Florence, Italy);
sold by (Armin B. Allen, London, England and New York, New York, USA);
1990-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Darr, A.P. "The Figure Revisited: Early Doccia Porcelain Sculptures in Detroit and its Development in 18th Century Italy" in The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar. London, June 1994.

Darr, A.P. "Innovations during the twilight of Florence: eighteenth century sculpture in Doccia porcelain, in Francesco Robba and the Venitian Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century." Papers from and International Symposium, Ljubljana, October 16-18 1998, ed. J. Hofler, 2000, pp. 101,104 (fig. 15).

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, II, cat. 168.

Darr, Alan Phipps. "The Doccia Porcelain Sculpture Collection in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Amici di Doccia, Quaderni, no. 8 (2014-2015): 32–84, pp. 66-67 (ill.).