BR58.29: Waste bowl

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR58.29

People

Manufactured by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German (founded 1710)
Painted in the style of Johann Gregorius Höroldt, German (Jena 1696 - 1775 Meissen)

Title

Waste bowl

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

c. 1735

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Germany, Meissen

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/223546

Location

Location

Level 1, Room 1510, Modern and Contemporary Art, Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums

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Physical Descriptions

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gold

Dimensions

8.3 x 17.1 cm (3 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• manufacturer's mark: bottom, gold paint: 4 [gilder's mark]
• manufacturer's mark: bottom, underglaze blue: [crossed swords]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Ilse Marthe Bischoff, Hartland, VT, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1958

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Ilse Bischoff

Accession Year

1958

Object Number

BR58.29

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Meissen Porcelain 1710-1754", Ceramic Bulletin of the China Students' Club of Boston, 1, no. 3, 1966, p. 11
• A. Cassandra Albinson, ed., Madame de Pompadour: Painted Pink, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (Cambridge, 2022), repr. as fig. 4 on p. 68; pp. 68-69

Exhibition History

• Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/01/2022 - 07/06/2025

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