Flower Vase

ca. 1762

Jean-Louis Morin, Artist Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Manufacturer

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About the Artwork

Title Flower Vase

Artwork Date ca. 1762

Makers Jean-Louis Morin (Artist) French, 1732-1787 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1756 - present

Medium Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

Dimensions Overall: 10 1/4 × 7 13/16 × 6 3/8 inches (26 × 19.8 × 16.2 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

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. 71.245

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Marks Marks, incised underneath stand: AE [conjoined]

Provenance

Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild [1808-1879] (London, England);
by descent to Alfred Charles Rothschild [1842-1918] (Seamore Place, London, England);
Almina, Countess of Carnarvon (London, England);
May 19-21, 1925, sold by (Christie's, London, England) Almina, Countess of Carnarvon sale, lot 257;
(Bensimon, London, England);
Baron Albert von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (Schloss Grüneburg, Frankfurt, Germany);
May 14,1933, sold by (Hermann Ball-Paul Graupe, Berlin, Germany) Baron Albert von Goldschmidt-Rothschild sale, lot 112;
(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA);
1939-1971, purchased by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Davis, C. A Description of the Works of Art Forming the Collection of Alfred de Rothschild, vol. 2: Sèvres China, Furniture, Metal Work and Objects de vitrine. London, 1884, no. 84.

Catalogue of Fine Furniture...the Property of the Rt. Hon. Almina, Countess of Carnarvon. Sales. cat., Christie, Mason and Woods. London, May 19-21, 1925, lot 257.

Kunstwerke aus dem Besitz Baron Albert von Goldschmidt-Rothschild. Sales cat., Hermann Baul-Paul Graupe. March 14, 1933, lot 112.

Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51

Dauterman, C.C. "Sèvres Figure Painting in the Anna Thomson Dodge Collection." The Burlington Magazine 118 (November 1976): pp. 758, 761 (fig. 43).

Savill, R. The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain, 3 vols. London, 1988, vol. 1, p 216, no. 2e.

Dell, T. et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit. New York and Detroit, 1996, no. 43, pp. 160-162, (ill.), p. 161.

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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; attributed to Jean-Louis Morin, Flower Vase, ca. 1762, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.245.