About the Artwork
Salad Bowl
1750/1765
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (Artist) German, founded 1710 Johann Friedrich Eberlein (Designer) German, 1696-1749
Hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
Overall (irreg.): 3 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (8.9 × 26.4 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Ruth Nugent Head in memory of her mother, Anna E. Kresge, and her husband, Henry W. Nugent Head
F1985.83.7
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Markings
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[dark underglaze blue, bottom center] crossed swords (Meissen factory mark) [impressed on bottom, near foot ring] 21
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Darr, Alan Phipps, "European Sculpture and Decorative Arts," Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 62, no. 3, Annual Report 1986, pp. 22-24
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Meissen Porcelain Manufactory; Johann Friedrich Eberlein, Salad Bowl, 1750/1765, hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Ruth Nugent Head in memory of her mother, Anna E. Kresge, and her husband, Henry W. Nugent Head, F1985.83.7.
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