Plate, 1768

  • François-Joseph Aloncle, French, 1734-1781
  • Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1756 - present

Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

  • Diameter: 9 3/4 in

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.