Fritzsche Porcelain Collection

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Title

Subject

Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Vincennes—18th century—Slide collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Vincennes porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century

Description

The Fritzsche Porcelain Collection showcases 95 digitized slides, taken by photographer Ted D’Arms, which serve as a visual documentation of the Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection of French porcelain. This collection, which the Fritzsches assembled from the 1970s through the 1990s, consisted of eighteenth-century porcelain masterpieces created by the Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain Manufactories. Several of these pieces are now in the Seattle Art Museum collection, while others are in museums and collections around the world. In addition to the digitized slides, the collection includes Dr. Fritzsche’s Collector’s Notes. The Fritzsche Library on Decorative Arts is a related resource comprised of books and research materials donated by Dr. Fritzsche to SAM Bullitt Library. See also the parallel exhibit, the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit, which highlights the history and significance of the objects documented in this slide collection, covering topics such as color, décor, teacup shapes, biographies of the porcelain painters and gilders, and porcelain marks. The exhibit also includes an overview of the Fritzsches’ approach to collecting, based on an interview conducted with Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche in 2019: https://samlibraries.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fritzsche-collection.

Creator

Fritzsche, Ulrich

Publisher

Seattle Art Museum Libraries

Date

1750–1990

Contributor

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

Rights

These materials may be protected under copyright law and may only be used for educational, teaching, and learning purposes. If intended use is beyond these purposes, it is the sole responsibility of the user to obtain the appropriate copyright permissions.

Format

application/jpg

Language

English | French

Type

still image

Date Created

31 May 2020

References

Arend, Liana Paredes. 1998. Sèvres Porcelain at Hillwood. Washington, DC: Hillwood Museum.
Bailey, Colin B. 2007. “A Long Working Life, Considerable Research and Much Thought: An Introduction to the Art and Career of Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755).” In Oudry’s Painted Menagerie: Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Europe, edited by Mary G. Morton. Exhibition catalogue. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.
Chaffers, William. 1965. Marks & Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery & Porcelain. 2 vols. London: William Reeves.
Christie’s. 2010. “A Sèvres Porcelain Rose Marbre Teapot And Cover (Théière ‘Calabre,’ 5ème Grandeur).” Object no. 5353601. Lot 619. Sale 2350: 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe. New York, 21–22 October 2010. Accessed July 2019. https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/a-sevres-porcelain-rose-marbre-teapot-and-5353601-details.aspx.
Christie’s. 2012. “A Sèvres Porcelain Frises Riches Solitaire (Déjeuner ‘Losange’).” Object no. 5609321. Lot 157. Sale 2762: Treasures of France. New York, 24 October 2012. Accessed June 2020. https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/a-sevres-porcelain-frises-riches-solitaire-dejeuner-5609321-details.aspx.
Cushion, John Patrick. 1980. Handbook of Pottery and Porcelain Marks. In collaboration with W. B. Honey. 4th ed. London: Faber & Faber.
Dallot-Naudin, Yvonne, and Alain Jacob. 1983. Porcelaines tendres françaises: Rouen, L. Poterat, St-Cloud, Mennecy, Chantilly, Bourg la Reine, Vincennes. Directed by Gilbert-Jean Malgras. Paris: ABC Collection.
Dawson, Aileen. 1994. A Catalogue of French Porcelain in the British Museum. London: British Museum Press.
Dawson, Aileen. 1996. Eighteenth-Century Porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum. Ashmolean Handbooks. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum.
De Waal, Edmund. 2015. The White Road: Journey into an Obsession. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Emerson, Julie. 2007. “Victory at Sea: A Vincennes Cuvette Painted with a Battle-Scene.” French Porcelain Society Journal 3:59–66.
Emerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, and Mimi Gardner Gates. 2000. Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Seattle Art Museum, February–May, 2000. Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum; University of Washington Press.
Eriksen, Svend. 1980. Davids Samling: Fransk porcelæn/The David Collection: French Porcelain. Copenhagen: Davids Samling.
Eriksen, Svend, and Geoffrey de Bellaigue. 1987. Sèvres Porcelain: Vincennes and Sèvres 1740–1800. Translated from the Danish by R. J. Charleston. London: Faber and Faber.
French Porcelain Society. 2021. “Our History.” Accessed June 2020 and August 2021. https://www.thefrenchporcelainsociety.com/about-us/our-history/.
Fritzsche, Ulrich. 2018. “Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection of Vincennes–Sèvres Porcelain.” Unpublished manuscript. Seattle Art Museum Library Archives/Special Collections.
Fritzsche, Ulrich. 2019. Interview with Dr. Ulrich Fritzsche and Stella Fritzsche, conducted and transcribed by Kirsten Painter, Seattle Art Museum Bullitt Library, 12 November 2019.
Gray, Richard. 1982. “The Origins of Porcelain.” In The History of Porcelain, edited by Paul Atterbury, 11–25. New York: William Morrow.
Hillwood Estate, Museum, and Gardens Online Collection. 2017. Washington, DC. Accessed June–July 2019. https://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/collection.
Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Online Catalogue. n.d. San Marino, CA. Accessed July–August 2019. http://emuseum.huntington.org/collections.
Le Corbeiller, Clare. 1986. “Covered Cup and Tray, A.12.” In “The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Addenda to the Catalogue.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 21:179–82.
Maxwell, Christopher. 2009. French Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century at the V&A. Victoria and Albert Museum. London: V&A Publishing.
Meister, Peter Wilhelm, and Horst Reber. 1980. European Porcelain of the 18th Century. Translated by Ewald Osers. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Opperman, Hal. 1970. “The Genesis of the Chasses Royales.” Burlington Magazine 112, no. 805 (April): 216–24.
Pinot de Villechenon, Marie-Noëlle. 1997. Sèvres: Porcelain from the Sèvres Museum, 1740 to the Present Day. Translated from the French by John Gilbert. London: Lund Humphries.
Plax, Julie Anne. 2017. “J.-B. Oudry’s Royal Hunts and Louis XV’s Hunting Park at Compiègne: Landscapes of Power, Prosperity and Peace.” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 37, no. 2:102–19. DOI: 10.1080/14601176.2016.1169709.
Raffo, Pietro. 1982. “The Development of European Porcelain.” In The History of Porcelain, edited by Paul Atterbury, 79–125. New York: William Morrow.
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Roth, Linda Horvitz, and Clare Le Corbeiller. 2000. French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection. Cambridge, UK: Trustees of the Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000.
Sassoon, Adrian. 1991. Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum.
Savill, Rosalind. 1988. The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain. 3 vols. London: Trustees of the Wallace Collection.
Seattle Art Museum (SAM). 2007. Guide to the Porcelain Room. Texts by Julie Emerson et al. Seattle: Marquand Books. Accessed August 2021. https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/Documents/SAMPorcelainGuide_4mg.pdf.
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Tait, Hugh. 1972. Porcelain. Originally published in 1962. Rev. ed. London: Hamlyn.
Tardy. 1981. Les porcelaines françaises. With the collaboration of Adrien Lesur. Paris: Tardy.

Extent

95 slides

Bibliographic Citation

Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection, a slide collection of objects created by the Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory and the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, ca. 1750–1793, in Seattle Art Museum Libraries: Digital Collections, accompanying notes written by Kirsten Painter,
https://samlibraries.omeka.net/collections/show/12.

Spatial Coverage

France

Temporal Coverage

eighteenth century

Provenance

Fritzsche, Ulrich

Collection Items

Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection of Vincennes–Sèvres Porcelain: Collector's Notes

In this document, Dr. Ulrich Fritzsche recounts the details of every object in his collection, including provenance and historical notes. Please be aware that the notes are sic and have not been proofread.

Mark for Plate with Partridge Eye Décor and Buffon Birds (assiette, œil de perdrix, oiseaux Buffon, slide 59)

35mm color slide of a porcelain mark for the plate in Slide 59. The mark is for Charles-Nicolas Dodin (1734–1803; active 1754–1802), a painter whose “meticulous technique” was “unrivalled” at the porcelain factory (Savill 1988, 3:1029–30). The number…