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This pair of pot pourri vases, probably purchased by King Louis XV in December 1762, demonstrates the highest achievements in porcelain production in eighteenth-century Europe. Pot pourris, available in a wide variety of materials and shapes, were a ubiquitous feature of the eighteenth-century interior. Designed both as pot pourris and as bulb pots, these rare models represent the rococo's fondness for complex and novel forms. The front of each vase depicts a scene of Chinese life based on engravings after François Boucher.
Triangular Potpourri Vase
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 enamel decoration and gilding
Overall: 11 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 7 inches (29.2 × 16.5 × 17.8 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.246
Public Domain
Markings
Marks, underneath vase, in blue enamel: [interlaced L's enclosing an I; for 1761] | K [mark for painter Dodin Marks, underneath vase, incised in script: Li
Provenance
Louis XV.(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA);
1939-1971, Anna Thomson Dodge [Mrs. Horace E. Dodge] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Winokur, R. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51:
Dauterman, C. "Sèvres Figure Painting in the Anna Thomson Dodge Collection." The Burlington Magazine 118 (November 1976): p. 757 (figs. 29-31).
Brunet, M. and T. Préaud. Sèvres: des origines à nos jours. Fribourg, 1978, pp. 64, 72.
de Bellaigue, Geoffrey. "Sèvres Artists and Their Sources II: Engravings." The Burlington Magazine 122, no. 932 (November 1980): p. 755.
Marandel, J.P. "Boucher et les 'chinoiseries.'" L'oeil, no. 374 (September 1986): p. 34 (fig. 5).
François Boucher 1703-1770. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts, Grand Palais, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Detroit, Paris, and New York, 1986, cat. no. 114 (ill.).
Sasoon, A. Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collectons of 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 and Detroit, 1996, no. 41, pp 156-158, (ill.) p. 157, (ill.) p. 158, (ills.) p. 156.
de Rochebrune, M.-L. Charles Nicolas Dodin et la manufacture de Vincennes-Sèvres. Splendeur et raffinement de la peinture sur porcelaine au XVIIIe siècle. Exh. cat., Chateau de Versailles. Versailles, 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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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; Jean-Claude Duplessis, père; Charles-Nicolas Dodin, Triangular Potpourri Vase, 1761, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.246.
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