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Boar, ca. 1746

  • Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, founded 1710

Hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel

  • Overall: 3 × 5 3/4 × 2 1/4 inches (7.6 × 14.6 × 5.7 cm)

Bequest of Ruth Nugent Head in memory of her mother, Anna E. Kresge, and her husband, Henry W. Nugent Head

F1985.90

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Ruth Nugent Head (New York, New York, USA)

1985-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Darr, Alan Phipps. "European Sculpture and Decorative Arts," Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3, Annual Report (1986): pp. 22-24.

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Boar, ca. 1746, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Ruth Nugent Head in memory of her mother, Anna E. Kresge, and her husband, Henry W. Nugent Head, F1985.90.