About the Artwork
Jardiniere in the Form of an Athenienne
ca. between 1775 and 1780
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French
French
Gilded wood and gilt-bronze mounts with bronze bowls, marble top, and zinc liner
Overall: 37 3/4 × 18 1/2 × 18 1/4 inches (95.9 × 47 × 46.4 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.201
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, by incision, on the underside of the base: II [Roman numeral] Inscribed, on modern zinc liner, on blue-bordered paper label, in ink: 4 BACS EN ZINC VIEILLI [and] NO3.
Printed, on modern zinc liner, on blue-bordered paper label: MADE IN FRANCE
Provenance
Edmond Blanc (Paris, France)
(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)
1935, acquired 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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A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, 2 vols. Detroit, 1939, vol. I, unpaginated.
Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51
Dell, T. et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, no. 17, pp. 86-88, (ill.) p. 87.
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French, Jardiniere in the Form of an Athenienne, ca. between 1775 and 1780, gilded wood and gilt-bronze mounts with bronze bowls, marble top, and zinc liner. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.201.
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