Pickle Stand

c. 1755

Bow Porcelain Manufactory English, active 18th century

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Fashionable Living, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Pickle Stand

Artwork Date c. 1755

Artist Bow Porcelain Manufactory

Life Dates active 18th century

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. English

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

Medium Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

Dimensions Overall: 13 1/2 × 9 5/8 × 10 inches (34.3 × 24.4 × 25.4 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Linda and John Axe, Maureen and Jerry P. D'Avanzo, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Booth II, Mary Kay and Keith Crain, Cynthia and Edsel Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Fridholm, Reginald and Anne Harnett, Gerhardt and Rebecca Hein, Jean and Joe Hudson, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Janes, Mrs. Wilber Hadley Mack, Richard and Jane Manoogian, Donald and Marilyn Ross, Susan and David Thoms, Patricia and Ted Wasson, and Robert Welchli

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. 1999.22

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Provenance

(Mercury Antiques, London, England);
Raymond and Billie Yarbrough (Hancock, Michigan, USA);
(Albert Amor Limited, London, England);
1999-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Yarbrough, R. Bow Porcelain and the London Theater. Hancock, 1996, pp. 107-108 (pl. 6).

The Yarbrough Collection of Bow Porcelain, the London Theater. Exh. cat., Albert Amor Limited. London, 1999, p. 28, no. 33, (ill.); p. 29.

Darr, A. and T. Albainy. "Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 - 1999." The Burlington Magazine 142 (June 2000): p. 411, no. XXI (color ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Bow Porcelain Manufactory, Pickle Stand, c. 1755, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Linda and John Axe, Maureen and Jerry P. D'Avanzo, et al., 1999.22.