Chestnut Bowl and Stand, between 1757 and 1758

  • Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1756 - present

Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

  • Overall: 4 3/4 × 6 3/8 × 5 inches (12.1 × 16.2 × 12.7 cm)

Museum Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund and Bernard J. Reilly Fund

2002.68

On View

  • Fashionable Living: Kanzler Room S330

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Baron Gustave de Rothschild [1829-1911] (Paris, France)

by descent to Rothschild family

1940s, confiscated by the German National Socialist (Nazi) government. restored to Rothschild family

by descent to Madame Benvenutti [née Rothschild] (Paris, France)

(Adrian Sassoon, London, England)

2002-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Masello, David. "100 Top Treasures." Art & Antiques (November 2002): p. 74 (ill.). Darr, Alan. P. and Brian Gallagher. "Recent acquisitions (2000-2006) of European sculpture and decorative arts at The Detroit Institute of Arts." The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1251 (June 2007): p. 451, pl. IX (ill.).

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Chestnut Bowl and Stand, between 1757 and 1758, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund and Bernard J. Reilly Fund, 2002.68.