Flask with Stopper

between 1899 and 1902

Taxile Doat French, 1851-1939

On View

Modern, Level 2, North Wing

Flask with Stopper: 1 of Collection Gallery

Flask with Stopper: 2 of Collection Gallery

Flask with Stopper: 3 of Collection Gallery

Flask with Stopper: 4 of Collection Gallery

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Flask with Stopper: 7 of Collection Gallery

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Title Flask with Stopper

Artwork Date between 1899 and 1902

Artist Taxile Doat

Life Dates 1851-1939

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Hard-paste porcelain with pâte-sur-pâte reliefs

Dimensions Overall: 10 1/4 × 7 3/4 inches (26 × 19.7 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Museum Purchase, Visiting Committee for European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Contributions and 17th-19th Century French Works of Art Acquisition Fund

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. 2012.1

Markings

Signed Signed: [T]Doat

Inscriptions Inscribed, below signature: Sevres

Provenance

(Felix Marcilhac, Paris, France)

(Barry Friedman, New York, New York, USA)

from late 1980s, Patricia and Jerome Shaw (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)

(Patricia Shaw, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA)

2012-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Barnet, Peter and MaryAnn Wilkinson. Decorative Arts 1900: Highlights from Private Collections in Detroit. Seattle, 1993, p. 69 (ill.).

Darr, Alan Phipps, Yao-Fen You, and Megan Reddicks. “Recent Acquisitions (2007–15) of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” The Burlington Magazine 158 (June 2016): pp. 501–512, p. 511 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Taxile Doat, Flask with Stopper, between 1899 and 1902, hard-paste porcelain with pâte-sur-pâte reliefs. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Visiting Committee for European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Contributions and 17th-19th Century French Works of Art Acquisition Fund, 2012.1.