Salad Bowl, 1768

  • Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1756 - present
  • Philippe Xhrowet, French, 1725-1775

Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

  • Overall: 3 1/8 × 10 7/16 × 10 inches (7.9 × 26.5 × 25.4 cm)

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

71.224

Underneath in black: interlaced L's enclosing "P" (date mark for 1768), probably mark for painter Xhrowet above

Underneath, written in black (abraded): Le [pi]nçon / Damerique, [Cai]lle de La / Chine, Le manakin / [Gorge R]ouge

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. 3, 33 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, pp. 30, no. 17, 35, no. 201 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. 57, pp.190-1, color repro p. 191 (entry by C. Le Corbeiller)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; Philippe Xhrowet, Salad Bowl, 1768, Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.224.