Watch Stand
ca. 1755 (made)
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Watch stand, tin-glazed earthenware, of elaborate pierced rococo scrollwork form, surmounted by a figure of Bacchus
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours |
| Brief description | Watch stand, tin-glazed earthenware, surmounted by a figure of Bacchus, Niderviller pottery and porcelain factory, France, about 1755 |
| Physical description | Watch stand, tin-glazed earthenware, of elaborate pierced rococo scrollwork form, surmounted by a figure of Bacchus |
| Production | Acquired as Marseilles, relabelled as Niderviller, 3rd quarter of the 18th century; examined by Hans Haug, Director of Strasbourg Museum, 1932, who thought that it was not Niderviller, but made elsewhere in Lorraine, perhaps Lunéville; an example was exhibited as Lunéville at the Paris French faience exhibition of 1932; for an example marked 'Niderviller' and dated c 1755 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 79. |
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| Accession number | 377-1869 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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