Potpourri Vase, ca. 1764

  • Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1756 - present
  • Jean-Claude Duplessis, père, Italian, 1690-1774

Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

  • Overall: 9 15/16 × 5 1/8 inches (25.2 × 13 cm) Overall (vase): 7 9/16 × 5 1/8 inches (19.2 × 13 cm) Overall (cover): 2 9/16 × 3 13/16 inches (6.5 × 9.7 cm)

Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

71.240

On View

  • Fashionable Living, Level 3, South
  • Fashionable Living, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Sir Lionel Faudel-Phillips [1877-1941] (Balls Park, Hertsfordshire, 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)

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. 754 (fig. 25). Savill, R. The Wallace CollectionL Catalogue of the Sèvres Porcelain, 3 vols. London, 1988, vol. 1, p. 132. 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. 47, pp. 168-169, p. 169 (ill.), 168 (detail).

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; Jean-Claude Duplessis, père, Potpourri Vase, ca. 1764, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.240.