Covered Dish

ca. 1817

Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot French, 1763-1850

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Era of Revolution, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Covered Dish

Artwork Date ca. 1817

Artist Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot

Life Dates 1763-1850

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 Silver gilt

Dimensions Overall: 8 1/2 × 11 11/16 inches (21.6 × 29.7 cm) Overall (cover): 1 3/16 × 11 11/16 inches (3 × 29.7 cm)

Classification Silver

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mrs. Roger Kyes

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. 73.251

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, on foot rim: JBCO [in lozenge-shaped punch]; ODIOT. [Paris first standard silver marks and medium assay office marks in use 1809-19.] Inscribed, on the dish: A L [interlaced; owner's initials] [count's or earl's coronet] | [unidentified coats-of-arms]

Provenance

December 5, 1817 [or later], supplied by the Odiot firm to Count Nicholas Demidoff [1774-1828]

by descent to his son Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato [1812-1870]

by 1863, (Charles Frederick Hancock, London, England)

Count Alfred de la Chapelle, Seigneur of Morton and Beaulieu, Périgord [1830-1914]. anonymous Englishman of title

December 15, 1928, sold by (Anderson Galleries, New York, New York, USA) lot 53, 54, 55 or 56

Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

June 23, 1971, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 54

(Frank Partridge and Sons, Ltd., London, England)

1973-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Sales cat., Anderson Galleries. New York, December 15, 1928, lot 53, 54, 55 or 56.

Sales cat., Christie's. London, June 24, 1971, lot 54.

Reflections of An era of Change. Exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, 1975, no. 34ab (ill.).

Pinçon, Jean-Marie and Olivier Gaube du Gers. Odiot l'Orfèvre. Paris, 1990, p. 116 (fig. 186).

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. 36, pp. 141-42, (ill.) p. 142.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot, Covered Dish, ca. 1817, silver gilt. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mrs. Roger Kyes, 73.251.