Flower Vase

1765

Charles Buteux, père, Artist Charles-Nicolas Dodin, Artist Jean-Claude Duplessis, père, Designer Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Manufacturer

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Title Flower Vase

Artwork Date 1765

Makers Charles Buteux, père (Artist) French, 1719 - 1782 Charles-Nicolas Dodin (Artist) French, 1734-1803 Jean-Claude Duplessis, père (Designer) Italian, 1690-1774 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1756 - present

Medium Soft-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration and gilding

Dimensions Overall (vase): 7 1/2 × 12 × 6 3/4 inches (19.1 × 30.5 × 17.1 cm) Overall (base): 2 1/8 × 10 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches (5.4 × 27.3 × 16.5 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. 71.257

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Marks Mark, on bottom, in blue: Marks, on bottom: 1138 Marks, on bottom, in red: 71.257

Provenance

until 1907, Palace of Pavlovsk (near St. Petersburg, Russia) [possibly purchased by Grand Duke Paul and his wife, the Empress Maria Feodorovna, by descent to Czar Nicolas I, Grand Duke Constantin Nikolaievich, Grand Duke Constantin Constantinovich]

(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

1932, purchased by Anna Thomson Dodge [Mrs. Horace E. Dodge] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Benois, A.N. and A.V. Prakhof. Les trésors d'art en Russie, 7 vols. St. Petersburg, 1901-07, vol. 7 (pl. 120).

A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge. Detroit, 1933, n.p.

Winkour, R. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51, p. 49 (ill.).

Dauterman, C.C. "Sèvres Figure Painting in the Anna Thomson Dodge Collection." The Burlington Magazine 118 (November 1976): pp. 757-758 (figs. 32-34).

Darr, A.P. European Decorative Arts from Royal Collections. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe, 1981, p. 18 (fig. 002).

Savil, R. The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain, 3 vols. London, 1988, vol. 1, 45, 52.

Dell, T. et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, no. 46, pp. 166-168, (ill.) p. 167, (ill.) p 167-168.

de Rochebrune, M.-L. Charles Nicolas Dodin et la manufacture de Vincennes-Sèvres. Splendeur et raffinement de la peinture sur porcelaine au XVIIIe siècle. Exh. cat., Chateau de Versailles. Versailles, 2012, cat. no. 34, pp. 110-111.

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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; Jean-Claude Duplessis, père; Charles-Nicolas Dodin; et al., Flower Vase, 1765, soft-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.257.