Ice-Cream Cooler

1769

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory French, active 1756 - present

On View

Fashionable Living: Kanzler Room, Level 3, South Wing

Ice-Cream Cooler: 1 of Collection Gallery

Ice-Cream Cooler: 2 of Collection Gallery

Ice-Cream Cooler: 3 of Collection Gallery

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Title Ice-Cream Cooler

Artwork Date 1769

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: 4 3/4 × 8 7/8 × 7 5/8 in. (12.1 × 22.5 × 19.4 cm) Overall (including lid): 7 1/2 × 8 7/8 × 7 7/8 inches (19.1 × 22.5 × 20 cm) Overall (Internal diameter): 6 5/8 inches (16.9 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. 71.231

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Marks Marks, underneath, in dark blue: [interlaced L's enclosing Q; date mark for 1769] Marks, underneath, on red-bordered paper label: Case Right | of Door | Second Shelf Marks, underneath, in red: 71.231

Provenance

until 1906, Chéreméteff family (St. Petersburg, Russia)

(Asher Wertheimer, London, England)

(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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Published References

Notes on the Histoic Chéreméteff Sèvres Porcelain on View at the Galleries of Mr. Asher Wertheimer. Exh. cat., Wertheimer Galleries. London, nos. 29-30.

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

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. 61, pp. 196-197, p. 196 (ill.).

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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Ice-Cream Cooler, 1769, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.231.