About the Artwork
Potpourri Vase
ca. 1764
Jean-Claude Duplessis, père (Designer) Italian, 1690-1774 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1756 - present
Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding
Overall: 10 × 5 1/8 inches (25.4 × 13 cm) Overall (vase): 7 5/8 × 5 1/8 inches (19.4 × 13 cm) Overall (cover): 2 1/2 × 3 13/16 inches (6.4 × 9.7 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.241
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Marks, inside foot, in pale blue enamel: [interlaced L's] Mark, incised inside foot: [L and illegible letter or monogram]
Provenance
Sir Lionel Faudel-Phillips [1877-1941] (Balls Park, Hertsfordshire, 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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Winokur, Ronald L., "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51.
Dauterman, C.C. "Sèvres Figure Painting in the Anna Thomson Dodge Collection." The Burlington Magazine 118 (Novemver 1976): p. 754 (fig. 25).
Savill, R. The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain, 3 vols. London, 1988, vol. 1, p. 132.
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. 47, pp. 168-169, p. 169 (ill.), 168 (detail).
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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; Jean-Claude Duplessis, père, Potpourri Vase, ca. 1764, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.241.
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