Bowl, ca. 1780

  • Puebla, Mexican

Tin-glazed earthenware

  • Overall: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)

Museum Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

2019.14

On View

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

Department

American Art before 1950

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

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

(Robert Simon Fine Art, Inc., New York, New York, USA)

2019-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Puebla, Mexican, Bowl, ca. 1780, tin-glazed earthenware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 2019.14.