Chestnut Bowl and Stand

between 1757 and 1758

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory French, active 1756 - present

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Fashionable Living: Kanzler Room, Level 3, South Wing

Chestnut Bowl and Stand: 1 of Collection Gallery

Chestnut Bowl and Stand: 2 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

Made at the Sèvres factory outside of Paris, this rare, richly ornamented lidded bowl was used to serve roasted, or perhaps sugared, chestnuts. The cover’s gilded foliage that frames the white fields with sprays of flowers surrounds carved openwork, which would have allowed fragrant chestnut steam to escape. The Sèvres modeler achieved this striking effect by cutting into the sugar bowl while it was still pliable in the wet paste. There are only a few extant examples of this model, which in 1759 was superseded by the marronnière à ozier, or chestnut bowl shaped like a basket. This chestnut bowl and stand, once owned by Baron Gustave de Rothschild of Paris, is also the first pink-ground porcelain to enter the museum’s significant collection of Sèvres porcelain.

Title Chestnut Bowl and Stand

Artwork Date between 1757 and 1758

Artist Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

Life Dates active 1756 - present

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

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Medium Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

Dimensions Overall: 4 3/4 × 6 3/8 × 5 inches (12.1 × 16.2 × 12.7 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Museum Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund and Bernard J. Reilly Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2002.68

Markings

Marks Marks, on bowl and stand, incised: BP [square répareur's mark, possibly refers to François Carrette, l'aîné (active 1754-70)] Marks, on bowl and stand, in blue: [factory mark of interlaced L's enclosing the date letter E for 1757-58] Marks, in red: [traces of inventory numbers]

Provenance

Baron Gustave de Rothschild [1829-1911] (Paris, France);
by descent to Rothschild family;
1940s, confiscated by the German National Socialist (Nazi) government.
restored to Rothschild family;
by descent to Madame Benvenutti [née Rothschild] (Paris, France);
(Adrian Sassoon, London, England);
2002-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Masello, David. "100 Top Treasures." Art & Antiques (November 2002): p. 74 (ill.).

Darr, Alan. P., Brian Gallagher. "Recent acquisitions (2000-2006) of European sculpture and decorative arts at The Detroit Institute of Arts." The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1251 (June 2007): p. 451, (pl. 9) (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Chestnut Bowl and Stand, between 1757 and 1758, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund and Bernard J. Reilly Fund, 2002.68.