Bowl

ca. 1780

Puebla, Mexican

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American: Whitby Hall, Corrider Gallery, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

A potter in the Mexican city Puebla made this bowl around 1780 from local earthenware clay. Its images and patterns in blue glaze against an opaque white ground emulate the appearance of expensive Chinese porcelain. During this period, that landlocked city became an important stop in the transport of luxury goods from Asia to Spain. Trading galleons sailing across the Spanish colonial empire brought porcelain from China to the Pacific coast of Mexico, which then passed through Puebla while crossing overland to ports on the Atlantic coast.

Artisans in Puebla during the 1700s found inspiration in diverse sources from Asia, Europe, and North America. While the ornamental style of this bowl is related to Chinese porcelain, the floral images painted in blue depict plants founds in Mexico.

Title Bowl

Artwork Date ca. 1780

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Mexican

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Puebla

Medium Tin-glazed earthenware

Dimensions Overall: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Museum Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2019.14

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Inscriptions Inscribed, on bottom, painted, in black: [resembles a conjioned IE over an H]

Marks Marked, on a modern printed label: 99 [inventory number from the Emily de Forest collection]

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(Robert Simon Fine Art, Inc., New York, New York, USA);
2019-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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