Plate from the Catherine the Great Service (Assiette à potage)

1778

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory French, active 1756 - present

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Decorative Arts, Level 3, South Wing

Plate from the Catherine the Great Service (Assiette à potage)

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Title Plate from the Catherine the Great Service (Assiette à potage)

Artwork Date 1778

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, bleu celeste ground with enameled decoration

Dimensions Overall: 1 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (3.8 × 26.7 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Museum Purchase, with funds from the Bernard J.Reilly Fund and the Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund

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. 2017.58

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Provenance

October 1779, Delivered to Prince Grigori Potemkin as part of a large dinner, dessert, tea and coffee-service, a gift from Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (St. Petersburg, Russia)

July 26, 1782, Given by Prince Potemkin to Empress Catherine the Great of Russia and moved to the Winter Palace (St. Petersburg, Russia)

by descent to Tsar Alexander I of Russia

December 17, 1837, taken from the Winter Palace during a fire

after 1837, presumably shipped to London by Ferdinando Civiliotti and sold to the dealers Storr and Mortimer (156 New Bond Street, London, United Kingdom)

by 1868, Robert Napier (West Shandon, Dunbartonshire, United Kingdom)

April 11, 1877, sold at (Christie's), (London, United Kingdom). before 1885, William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley [1817–1885] (Mayfair, London, United Kingdom)

May 21, 1886, sold at his estate sale (Christie's) (London, United Kingdom). December 8, 1990, purchased by Robert Williams (Eastbourne, England) at anonymous sale (Christie's)(London, United Kingdom)

January 18, 1991, acquired by John Shearer (1924–2010) (London, United Kingdom)

2010, by descent to his family

July 4, 2017, purchased at (Christie's, London, United Kingdom) by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Robinson, J.C. Catalogue of the Works of Art Forming the Collection of Robert Napier, of West Shandon, Dumbartonshire. London, 1865, p. 260; no. 3506 or 3507.

National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, 1868. Exh. cat., Museum of Art. Leeds, 1868, p. 262; no. 2105.

The John Shearer Collection of Important Meissen, Vincennes and Sèvres. Sales cat., Christie's, London, 25 November 2014, pp. 39-41, no. 31 (ill.).

European Furniture & Works of Art. Sales cat., Christie's, London, July 4, 2017, pp. 122-123, no. 141 (ill.).

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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Plate from the Catherine the Great Service (Assiette à potage), 1778, soft-paste porcelain, bleu celeste ground with enameled decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, with funds from the Bernard J.Reilly Fund and the Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, 2017.58.