About the Artwork
Pyramus and Thisbe
1745/1750
Gaspero Bruschi (Artist) Italian, 1701-1780 Giovanni Battista Foggini (Artist) Italian, 1652-1725 Doccia Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer) Italian
Hard-paste porcelain
Overall: 16 1/2 × 15 1/2 × 10 5/8 inches (41.9 × 39.4 × 27 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
1990.248
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, on cartouche, on base: ILLE NECIS CAUSAM PRAEBUIT ILLA MANUM.
Provenance
purchased by Leonardo Lapicciarella (Florence, Italy)
sold by (Armin B. Allen, London, England and New York, New York, USA)
1990-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Lankheit, K. Die Modellsammlung der Porzellanmanufaktur Doccia, ein Dokument Italienischier Barockplastik. Munich, 1982 (fig. 55).
Darr, A.P. The Figure Revisited: Early Doccia Porcelain Sculptures in Detroit and its Development in 18th-Century Italy, in The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar. London, June 1994, pp. 15-16 (fig. 17).
Darr, A.P. Innovations during the twilight of Florence: eighteenth century sculpture in Doccia porcelain, in Francesco Robba and the Venitian Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century, Papers from and International Symposium, ed. J. Hofler. Ljubljana, October 16-18, 1998, 2000, pp. 102-103, 107 (fig. 21).
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, vol. II, cat. 157.
Darr, Alan Phipps. "The Doccia Porcelain Sculpture Collection in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Amici di Doccia, Quaderni, no. 8 (2014-2015): 32–84, pp. 44–45 (ill.), 74.
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attributed to Gaspero Bruschi; after a model by Giovanni Battista Foggini; Doccia Porcelain Factory, Pyramus and Thisbe, 1745/1750, hard-paste porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1990.248.
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