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Fruit Basket
American China Manufactory (American, active 1770-72)LinkedCulture matchlcp-39416d15a6b4
- Date
- c. 1770–72
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain, underglaze blue decoration, and glaze
- Culture
- Philadelphia
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 266210
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This delicate fruit basket is a rare example of early American porcelain, one of around 20 known surviving works by Gousse Bonnin and George Anthony Morris’s American China Manufactory. Porcelain is a strong, luminous type of clay that originated in China, where its formula was a heavily guarded secret. It eventually emerged as a prized material in global luxury goods, causing fierce competition between various producers of porcelain wares. The American China Manufactory fruit basket represents the early advancements of this industry in the American colonies, which followed English precedents such as the Worcester Porcelain Factory basket also in this case.
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- Credit line
- Vance American Art Fund; Americana, Jane and Morris Weeden, and Roger and J. Peter McCormick endowment funds
- Provenance
- Possibly Colonel Hezekiah Ketchum (1752- or 1756–1836), Wilton, CT, Waterford, NY and New York, NY, by 1836 [this and the following according to Christie's Private Sale document; copy in curatorial object file]; probably by descent to his daughter, Ann Eliza Carter (born Ann Eliza Ketchum) (c. 1796–1867), New York, by 1836; by descent to her son, Galen Augustus Carter (1832–1893), New York and Stamford, CT, by 1867; by descent to the last private owner; sold through Christie's, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
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- Object type
- AAT300386308
Part of a LinkedCulture topic
18th Century Ceramic BasketsThese objects are decorative ceramic baskets and basket-shaped vessels produced by English and Dutch pottery manufacturers during the 18th century, showcasing various ceramic techniques including porcelain, earthenware,
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