Pickle Stand
American China Manufactory|Gousse Bonnin|George Anthony Morris
1770–72 · Soft-paste porcelain · The American Wing
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.
- Artist
- American China Manufactory|Gousse Bonnin|George Anthony Morris
- Date
- 1770–72
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1990
