Covered Vase

between 1768 and 1769

Jacques Fontaine, Artist Jean Baptiste Étienne Genest, Artist Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Manufacturer

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Title Covered Vase

Artwork Date between 1768 and 1769

Makers Jacques Fontaine (Artist) French, 1752-1775 Jean Baptiste Étienne Genest (Artist) French, 1731-1789 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1756 - present

Medium Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding, ormolu mount

Dimensions Overall: 15 5/16 × 5 3/8 inches (38.9 × 13.7 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. 71.260

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Marks Marks, inside the foot, stamped in puce: [fragmentary label] Marks, inside the foot, in gray: 1059

Provenance

until ca. 1907, Palace of Pavlovsk (near St. Petersburg, Russia) [probably not purchased by Grand Duke Paul and his wife, the Empress Maria Feodorovna]

until ca. 1930, government of the Soviet Union (USSR)

(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

1932, purchased by 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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Published References

Benois, A.N. and A.V. Prakhof. Les trésors d'art en Russie, 7 vols. St. Petersburg, 1901-07, vol. 7, p. 226 (pl. 131).

A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thompson Dodge. Detroit, 1933, n.p.

Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51.

Darr, A.P. European Decorative Arts from Royal Collections. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe, 1981, p. 25 (fig. 009).

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. 48, pp. 170-172, (ill.) 171.

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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; possibly Jacques Fontaine; possibly Jean Baptiste Étienne Genest, Covered Vase, between 1768 and 1769, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding, ormolu mount. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.260.