Covered Creamer

Covered Creamer

Unknown

Showing an amorous couple in Dutch costume departing for the Isle of Cythera with Bacchus leading the way, this scene is after a 1708 engraving by Bernard Picart (1673–1733), a French artist active in Amsterdam. It was popular on Meissen porcelain a decade earlier.
Artist
Unknown (Chinese)
Title
Covered Creamer
Date
ca. 1745
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
5 1/8 in. H Overall
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cleaver
Accession No.
1975.146a-b
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
China

Related

by 1973, Ethel Liebman [mother] and Arthur Liebman [son] (Milwaukee, WI); 1973, Arthur Liebman (Milwaukee, WI) sold to Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cleaver (Milwaukee, WI); September 1973, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cleaver deposited on long-term loan to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 1975, gifted to Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Brawer, Catherine Coleman. "Chinese Export Porcelain." Madison, Wis.: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1992. p. 104, no. 78

  • Chinese Export Porcelain from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/11/2003–8/29/2005
  • European and Chinese Export Porcelain on Loan and from the Permanent Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 7/16/1983–9/4/1983
  • Chinese Export Porcelain from the Ethel and Arthur Liebman Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/21/1979–1/6/1980

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