Manufacturer Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1756 - present
Maker Philippe Xhrowet, French, 1725-1775
Title
  • Salad Bowl
Date 1768
Medium Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding
Dimensions Overall: 3 1/8 × 10 7/16 × 10 inches (7.9 × 26.5 × 25.4 cm)
Credit Line Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
Accession Number 71.224
Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Not On View
Marks Underneath in black: interlaced L's enclosing "P" (date mark for 1768), probably mark for painter Xhrowet above
Inscriptions 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)