Underneath, in blue: interlaced L's enclosing "P" (date mark for 1768), the mark for painter Aloncle above Incised near foot rim: CT (mark for répareur Collot, I)
Underneath, written in black: Grinpereau de mur
Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.226
Underneath, in blue: interlaced L's enclosing "P" (date mark for 1768), the mark for painter Aloncle above Incised near foot rim: CT (mark for répareur Collot, I)
Underneath, written in black: Grinpereau de mur
Chéreméteff family, St. Petersburg, until 1906
Asher Wertheimer (dealer), London
Duveen Brothers (dealer), New York
purchased by Anna Thomson Dodge, Grosse Pointe, MI, in 1939.
London, Wertheimer Galleries, NOTES ON THE HISTORIC CHEREMETEFF SEVRES PORCELAIN ON VIEW AT THE GALLERIES OF MR. ASHER WERTHEIMER, exh. cat., n.d., nos. 95-167 Winokur, Ronald L., "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection," Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 50, no. 3, 1971, pp. 43-51 Cayeux, J. de, "Le décor d'oiseaux colorés à Vincennes et à Sèvres," SEVRES, no. 2, 1993, p. 31, no. 67 Dell, T. et al, THE DODGE COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH AND ENGLISH ART AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, New York & Detroit, 1996, no. 58, pp.191-2, color repro p. 192 (entry by C. Le Corbeiller)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; François-Joseph Aloncle, Plate, 1768, Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.226.