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Match Making

Artist Daniel Chester French 1850 - 1931
Date1873
Terms
  • Figurines
  • Ceramic
  • England
Dimensions19.37 × 13.65 × 10.48 cm (7 5/8 × 5 3/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
MarkingsOn verso: registration diamond with "N/2/3 Rd A/R"; Roman numeral "II" and "O N?"
Credit LineGift of the Cummings Davis Society (2011)
Object number2011.013
DescriptionTwo matchmaking owls embracing on a branch; hollow tree stump for holding matches; octagonal base; parianware. "MATCH MAKING" inscribed on front of base. Mark on back.
Collections
  • Artworks
Matchmaking
Object number: 1994.54
Daniel Chester French
1871
Matchmaking
Object number: 1994.061
Daniel Chester French
ca. 1871
Reveries of a Bachelor
Object number: 2010.28
Daniel Chester French
1871 - 1904
Object number: 2001.8
Daniel Chester French
ca. 1871
Object number: C0198
Daniel Chester French
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Object number: 2013.11ab
Daniel Chester French
1879
Object number: PER1114.0002AAN
Hard & Parsons
1882
Object number: 2006.079
Daniel Chester French
ca. 1860
Object number: 2002.016
Daniel Chester French
ca. 1875
Retribution
Object number: 2012.15
Daniel Chester French
1872-07-02