About the Artwork
Flower Vase
1760
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
active 1756 - present
French
Unknown
Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding
Overall: 10 3/4 × 11 1/4 × 6 5/8 inches (27.3 × 28.6 × 16.8 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.251
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Marks, incised on bottom of vase: CN Marks, on bottom of stand, in blue enamel: [interlaced L's enclosing an H (for 1760), the mark for the painter Vielliard, and incised CN]
Provenance
Baroness Mathilde de Rothschild [1832-1924] (Frankfurt, Germany)
George [1858-1941] and Florence Blumenthal (New York, New York, USA)
December 1-2, 1932, sold by (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France) sale of George Blumenthal coll., lot 64
(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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Bloch, S.R. Catalogue of the Collection of George and Florence Blumenthal, 6 vols. Paris, 1930, vol. 6, pls. XLIX-L.
Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement du XVIIIe siècle...[de] M. George Blumenthal. Sales cat., Galerie Georges Petit. Paris, December 1-2, 1932, lot 64, pl. XXXIII.
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 (November 1976): p. 758 (figs. 36, 37, 39).
Savill, R. The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain, 3 vols. London, 1988, vol. 1, p. 38.
Sasoon, A. Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collections, the J. Paul Getty Museum. Malibu, 1991, p. 50.
Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit. New York and Detroit, 1996, no. 40, pp. 152, 154-156, (ill.) p. 155, (detail) p. 154.
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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Flower Vase, 1760, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.251.
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