About the Artwork
Covered Vase
between 1768 and 1769
Jacques Fontaine (Artist) French, 1752-1775 Jean Baptiste Étienne Genest (Artist) French, 1731-1789 Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1756 - present
Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding, ormolu mount
Overall: 15 3/8 × 5 3/8 inches (39.1 × 13.7 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.261
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Marks, incised underneath: R
Provenance
until ca. 1907, Palace of Pavlovsk (near St. Petersburg, Russia) [probably not purchased by Grand Duke Paul and his wife, the Empress Maria Feodorovna]
until ca. 1930, government of the Soviet Union (USSR)
(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)
1932, purchased by Anna Thomson Dodge [Mrs. Horace E. Dodge] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Benois, A.N. and A.V. Prakhof. Les trésors d'art en Russie, 7 vols. St. Petersburg, 1901-07, vol. 7, p. 226 (pl. 131).
A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thompson Dodge. Detroit, 1933, n.p.
Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51.
Darr, A.P. European Decorative Arts from Royal Collections. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe, 1981, p. 25 (fig. 009).
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. 48, pp. 170-172, (ill.) 171.
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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; possibly Jacques Fontaine; possibly Jean Baptiste Étienne Genest, Covered Vase, between 1768 and 1769, soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding, ormolu mount. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.261.
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