Artist possibly French
Title
  • Bowl with Stand
Date ca. 1790
Medium Marble (Brèche de Médous?), gilt bronze, porphyry
Dimensions Overall: 15 5/8 × 10 3/4 inches (39.7 × 27.3 cm)
Overall (bowl): 3 1/2 × 10 13/16 inches (8.9 × 27.5 cm)
Overall (figures): 8 1/2 × 8 × 7 1/2 inches (21.6 × 20.3 × 19.1 cm)
Overall (base): 4 3/16 × 10 3/4 inches (10.6 × 27.3 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund
Accession Number 48.165
Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts
On View Era of Revolution S331.2, Level 3 (see map)
(Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., Inc, New York, New York, USA);
1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Payne, E. "A Pair of Porphery Bowls." Bulletin of the DIA 28, no. 2 (1949): pp. 47-48, p. 47 (ill.).

Sychev, Igor. Russian Bronze. Moscow, 2003, p. 89.

Sammlung Stroganoff Leningrad. Sales cat., Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus. Berlin, May 6, 1931, no. 147-148.