Barber's basin with birds and vegetal ornament / Artist Unknown, France
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- Accession Number
- 1969/2.39
- Title
- Barber's basin with birds and vegetal ornament
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, France
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Medium and Support
- tin-glazed earthenware (faience) with yellow and blue underglaze
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1750
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (region)
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (department)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (department)
- Credit Line
- The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
- Style/Group/Movement
- Rococo
- Period
- Europe, Rococo (1700-1775)
- Dimensions
- 7.8 cm x 39.9 cm x 28 cm (3 1/16 in. x 15 11/16 in. x 11 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- dish
- Physical Description
- This oval-shaped ceramic vessel features a wide, steep rim surrounding a large well in the center. The scalloped edges of the rim are cut back into a deep semicircle on one side. The rim is painted in underglaze blue and yellow with plant and floral motifs that are arranged in a whimsical, asymmetrical fashion around the edge. The well is decorated with similar vegetal motifs and two vaguely stork-like birds with long legs that confront one another on a strip of turf.
- Subject Matter
- The deep semicircle cut into one side of this barber's basin allowed it to be held close to a client's neck while being shaved by the barber. The style of informal decoration on this plate was developed around 1740 by Joseph Olérys, the owner of a faience factory in Moustiers near Marseilles in southern France.
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- earthenware
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1099 x 777
- File Size
- 73 KB
- Record
- 1969/2.39
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