Clock

1767

Charles-Nicolas Dodin, Artist François Vavasseur, Artist Charles Duterte, Maker Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Manufacturer

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About the Artwork

Title Clock

Artwork Date 1767

Makers Charles-Nicolas Dodin (Artist) French, 1734-1803 François Vavasseur (Artist) French, 1753-1770 Charles Duterte (Maker) French, active 1758 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1756 - present

Medium Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and ormolu mounts

Dimensions Overall: 18 1/2 × 7 × 7 inches (47 × 17.8 × 17.8 cm)

Classification Timepieces

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler 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. 54.475

Markings

Signed Signed, on the works: Duterte Paris

Marks Marks, on front plaque: K [for Dodin] Marks, on plaques on right and left: W [for Vavasseur l'aîné]

Provenance

Lionel and Alfred de Rothschild;
September 9, 1954, (Antique Porcelain Company, London, England);
1954-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Grigaut, Paul L. "A Gift of French Porcelain." Bulletin of the DIA 34, no. 4 (1954–1955): 78–79, p. 79, cover (ill.).

French Taste in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1956, pp. 84, no. 353, 86 (ill.).

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Charles-Nicolas Dodin; François Vavasseur; Charles Duterte; et al., Clock, 1767, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and ormolu mounts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund, 54.475.