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Monteith

François-Joseph Aloncle, Maker Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Manufacturer
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About the Artwork

Monteith

1767

François-Joseph Aloncle (Maker) French, 1734-1781 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1756 - present

Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

Overall: 5 × 11 1/2 × 7 3/4 inches (12.7 × 29.2 × 19.7 cm)

Ceramics

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

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

71.230

Public Domain

Markings

Inscribed, underneath: Martin Pecheur et le | Canard de Perse Inscribed, underneath: Manakin et perroquet

Date mark, underneath, in blue: [interlaced L's enclosing O; for 1767] Painter's mark, underneath, in blue: [Aloncle] Marks, underneath, on a red-bordered label: Case Right | of Door | Top Shelf Marks, underneath, on octagonal label: Case | #1/1 Marks, underneath, on circular label: 73 Marks, underneath, on a blue-bordered label: [illegible] Marks, underneath, in red: 71.230

Provenance

until 1906, Chéreméteff family (St. Petersburg, Russia);
(Asher Wertheimer, London, England);
(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

Spilioti, N. "La porcelaine à l'exposition historique des objets d'art à St. Petersburg en 1904." Khudozhestvennyya Sokrovishcha Rossii [Les trésors d'art de Russie] vol. 4. St. Petersburg, 1904, p. 140.

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

Cayeux, J. de. "Le décor d'oiseaux colorés à Vincennes et à Sèvres." Sèvres, no. 2 (1993): pp. 30, no. 25, 32, no. 88, 32, no. 103, 34, no. 155.

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. 56, pp. 186-190, (ill.) p. 189 (ill.) p. 190.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; François-Joseph Aloncle, Monteith, 1767, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.230.

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