Figure (1745–50): Art, History and Details

Figure (1745–50) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Strasbourg Factory (France).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

For several decades in the middle of the 18th century the Hannong family were proprietors of one of the best and most influential French faience factories at Strasbourg. Here German and French ceramic styles and techniques met and were fused. These figures were copied from a pair executed in Chantilly porcelain which in turn relied on a Meissen prototype.

Object facts

• Title: Figure
• Date: 1745–50
• Creator attribution: Strasbourg Factory (France)
• Culture: France, Strasbourg, 18th century
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: faience
• Dimensions: Overall: 28.9 x 13.7 x 12.7 cm (11 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 5 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1966.225.1

Collection credit

The Norweb Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Tannenbaum, Barbara. Ann Hamilton: Still and Moving: The Tactile Image. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025.

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