About the Artwork
Plate from the Catherine the Great Service (Assiette à potage)
1778
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
active 1756 - present
French
Unknown
Soft-paste porcelain, bleu celeste ground with enameled decoration
Overall: 1 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (3.8 × 26.7 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Museum Purchase, with funds from the Bernard J.Reilly Fund and the Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund
2017.58
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
October 1779, Delivered to Prince Grigori Potemkin as part of a large dinner, dessert, tea and coffee-service, a gift from Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (St. Petersburg, Russia)
July 26, 1782, Given by Prince Potemkin to Empress Catherine the Great of Russia and moved to the Winter Palace (St. Petersburg, Russia)
by descent to Tsar Alexander I of Russia
December 17, 1837, taken from the Winter Palace during a fire
after 1837, presumably shipped to London by Ferdinando Civiliotti and sold to the dealers Storr and Mortimer (156 New Bond Street, London, United Kingdom)
by 1868, Robert Napier (West Shandon, Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom)
April 11, 1877, sold at (Christie's), (London, United Kingdom). before 1885, William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley [1817–1885] (Mayfair, London, United Kingdom)
May 21, 1886, sold at his estate sale (Christie's) (London, United Kingdom). December 8, 1990, purchased by Robert Williams (Eastbourne, England) at anonymous sale (Christie's)(London, United Kingdom)
January 18, 1991, acquired by John Shearer (1924–2010) (London, United Kingdom)
2010, by descent to his family
July 4, 2017, purchased at (Christie's, London, United Kingdom) by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Robinson, J.C. Catalogue of the Works of Art Forming the Collection of Robert Napier, of West Shandon, Dumbartonshire. London, 1865, p. 260; no. 3506 or 3507.
National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, 1868. Exh. cat., Museum of Art. Leeds, 1868, p. 262; no. 2105.
The John Shearer Collection of Important Meissen, Vincennes and Sèvres. Sales cat., Christie's, London, 25 November 2014, pp. 39-41, no. 31 (ill.).
European Furniture & Works of Art. Sales cat., Christie's, London, July 4, 2017, pp. 122-123, no. 141 (ill.).
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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Plate from the Catherine the Great Service (Assiette à potage), 1778, soft-paste porcelain, bleu celeste ground with enameled decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, with funds from the Bernard J.Reilly Fund and the Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, 2017.58.
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