Flower Vase

1760

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory French, active 1756 - present

On View

Fashionable Living: Kanzler Room, Level 3, South Wing

Image Only Image + Details All Images High Resolution TIFF Metadata

About the Artwork

Please note: This section is empty
Markings

Please note: This section is empty

This section contains information about signatures, inscriptions and/or markings an object may have.
Provenance

Please note: This section is empty

Provenance is a record of an object's ownership. We are continually researching and updating this information to show a more accurate record and to ensure that this object was ethically and legally obtained.

For more information on provenance and its important function in the museum, please visit:
Exhibition History

Please note: This section is empty

The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.

We welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.
Published References

Please note: This section is empty

We regularly update our object record as new research and findings emerge, and we welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.
Catalogue Raisonné

Please note: This section is empty

A catalogue raisonné is an annotated listing of artworks created by an artist across different media.
Credit Line for Reproduction

Please note: This section is empty

The credit line includes information about the object, such as the artist, title, date, and medium. Also listed is its ownership, the manner in which it was acquired, and its accession number. This information must be cited alongside the object whenever it is shown or reproduced.

About the Artwork

Title Flower Vase

Artwork Date 1760

Artist Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

Life Dates active 1756 - present

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 Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

Dimensions Overall: 10 3/4 × 11 1/4 × 6 5/8 inches (27.3 × 28.6 × 16.8 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. 71.251

Markings

Inscriptions ------

Marks 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)

For more information on provenance and its important function in the museum, please visit:

Provenance page

Exhibition History

Please note: This section is empty

The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.

We welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.

Suggest Feedback

Published References

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.

Kindly share your feedback or any additional information, as this record is still a work in progress and may need further refinement.

Suggest Feedback

Catalogue Raisoneé

Please note: This section is empty

Credit Line for Reproduction

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.