About the Artwork
Pair of Triangular Potpourri Vases
1761
Charles-Nicolas Dodin (Decorator) French, 1734-1803 Jean-Claude Duplessis, père (Designer) Italian, 1690-1774 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1756 - present
Soft-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration and gilding
Overall (71.246): 11 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 7 inches (29.2 × 16.5 × 17.8 cm) Overall (71.247): 12 × 6 1/2 × 7 inches (30.5 × 16.5 × 17.8 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
V2015.24
Public Domain
Markings
Underneath vase, in blue enamel: interlaced L's enclosing an "I" (for 1761), and "k" below (mark for painter Dodin). Also incised "Li" (in script).
Provenance
Louis XVDuveen Brothers (dealer), New York;
Anna Thomson Dodge, Grosse Pointe, MI, 1939-1971
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R. Winokur, "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection," Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971), pp. 43-51
C. Dauterman, "Sèvres Figure Painting in the Anna Thomson Dodge Collection," The Burlington Magazine 118 (Nov 1976), p. 757, figs. 29-31
Brunet, M., and Préaud, T., SEVRES: DES ORIGINES A NOS JOURS, Fribourg, 1978, pp 64, 72
Marandel, J. P., "Boucher et les 'chinoiseries'," L'OEIL, no. 374, September 1986, p. 34, fig. 5
Detroit Institute of Arts- Grand Palais, Paris- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Reunion des Musees Nationaux, FRANÇOIS BOUCHER 1703-1770, ex cat by A. Laing et al, February 17, 1986-January 5, 1987, cat. no. 114 (ill)
Sasoon, A., VINCENNES AND SEVRES PORCELAIN: CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTIONS, THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM, Malibu, 1991, p. 46
Dell, T. et al, THE DODGE COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH AND ENGLISH ART AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, New York & Detroit, 1996, no. 41,
pp 156-8, color repro p. 157, b/w p. 158, dets p. 156 (entry by C. Le Corbeiller)
M.-L. de Rochebrune, Charles Nicolas Dodin et la manufacture de Vincennes-Sèvres. Splendeur et raffinement de la peinture sur porcelaine au XVIIIe siècle (Paris 2012), cat. no. 34, pp. 98-99
You, Yao-Fen. “From Novelty to Necessity: The Europeanization of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2016, p. 48; 58 (ill.); 133, cat. 60.
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