Table Fountain
1750-1800 (made)
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Formed as Amphitrite seated on a shell-shaped chariot drawn by a dolphin
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Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours |
Brief description | (IN FORM OF AMPHITRITE); Eastern France, 18 |
Physical description | Formed as Amphitrite seated on a shell-shaped chariot drawn by a dolphin |
Gallery label | Gallery 128 Decant 2003
Possibly made in Eastern France, possibly at Holitsch in Hungary(07/06/2004) |
Object history | Bought from the Aigoin Collection |
Production | Acquired as Strasbourg, 1750-60; reattributed to Eastern France, late 18th century; reattributed to Holitsch, Hungary; a similar figure is known in faience fine, but with decoration suggestive of a 19th century date; another of this 18th century type was in the private collection of a major ceramic scholar in 1985, who, however, did not know how to attribute it; at that time the object was attributed to Les Islettes on the label, though this attribution does not appear in the register. Jacques Bastian reattributed the fountain to Eastern France, but with no precise factory (May 2010). |
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Accession number | 466-1870 |
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Record created | June 15, 2004 |
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