Centerpiece with Triton and a Nereid on a Hippocampus

c. 1750–55

Imperial Porcelain Manufactory (Austrian, 1744–1864)
Vienna, Austria

Status: On View, Gallery 234
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Title: Centerpiece with Triton and a Nereid on a Hippocampus
Place: Vienna (Object made 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.: Manufactured 1745–1760
Medium: Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome decoration
Dimensions: 36 × 30 × 24.6 cm (14 3/16 × 11 13/16 × 9 11/16 in.); 35.3 × 29.9 × 22.9 cm (13 7/8 × 11 3/4 × 9 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Gayle R. Tilles and an anonymous donor
Reference Number: 2024.331

Sold, Veilinghuis Loeckx, Ghent, Belgium, Mar. 9, 2021, lot 281, to private collection, Germany; sold to Trias Art Experts, Munich, 2023; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024.

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