Pickle Stand
The form of this stand, which was intended to hold various comfits (sugared fruits or nuts) during the dessert course of a meal, was one of the most ambitious produced at the short-lived factory of Bonnin and Morris—America’s first successful porcelain factory. The Rococo style, emphasizing repeated shell motifs and asymmetrical painted floral sprays, was in vogue in America in the 1770s.
Artwork Details
- Title: Pickle Stand
- Manufacturer: Manufactured by American China Manufactory (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1770–1772)
- Maker: Gousse Bonnin
- Maker: George Anthony Morris
- Date: 1770–72
- Geography: Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions: H. 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)
- Credit Line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1990
- Object Number: 1990.19
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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