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Covered Sugar Dish ("Aura Argenta Linear" pattern)

A work made of porcelain with enamel, gilding, and silvering.

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  • A work made of porcelain with enamel, gilding, and silvering.

Date:

c. 1910

Artist:

Decorated by Anton Richter (American, born Bohemia, 1859–c. 1933)
Pickard China (American, founded 1898)
Chicago, Illinois

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Anton Richter (Decorator)

Title

Covered Sugar Dish ("Aura Argenta Linear" pattern)

Place

Chicago (Object designed in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

c. 1910

Medium

Porcelain with enamel, gilding, and silvering

Inscriptions

Marked bottom, stamped in red ink "Hand Painted - China -" [in circular form]; "A / Pichard / W" [in center of circle] [on top maple leaf design painted in gold]. Earlier mark covered by maple leaf: light gray ink, "PRUSSIA" [eroded, likely the mark for Carl Schlegelmilch].

Credit Line

Gift of David and Nancy Platt, Jonathan Platt, Elizabeth Platt and Thomas Platt in memory of Dorothy Pickard Platt

Reference Number

2005.86

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