Monteith

1770

François-Joseph Aloncle, Artist Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Manufacturer

On View

Fashionable Living, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Monteith

Artwork Date 1770

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

Medium Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

Dimensions Overall: 4 5/8 × 11 1/2 × 7 3/4 inches (11.7 × 29.2 × 19.7 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. 71.239

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, underneath, in black: La poule Sultane et La | moucherole d'amerique Inscribed, underneath, in black: Vautour d'arabie et | Canard d'amerique

Marks Date mark, underneath, in blue: [interlaced L's enclosing R; for 1700] Painter's mark, underneath, in blue: [Aloncle] Marks, on a red-bordered label: Case Left | of Door | Top Shelf [covering a second red-bordered label] Marks, on octagonal label: Case | 4/9 Marks, on circular label: 39 Marks, on a blue-bordered label: 99 Marks, in red: 71.239

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

Notes on the Historic Chéreméteff Sèvres Porcelain on View at the Galleries of Mr. Asher Wertheimer. Exh. cat., Wertheimer Galleries. London, nos. 170, 171.

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. 33, no. 129 [as Chappuis], 35, no. 212, 36, no. 237 [as Chappuis].

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. 62, p. 197, (ill.) p. 198, (ill.) p. 197.

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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; painted by François-Joseph Aloncle, Monteith, 1770, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.239.