Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection of Vincennes–Sèvres Porcelain: Collector's Notes
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
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 <em>sic</em> and have not been proofread.
Fritzsche, Ulrich
Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection
Seattle Art Museum Libraries
2018
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See also <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fritzsche-porcelain-collection">the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit</a>, a digital exhibit devoted to the history of the objects in this slide collection, which covers topics such as porcelain marks, painters' biographies, birds, types of teacups, teapots, and winecoolers, and varieties of both décor and blue ground color. The exhibit also includes a page devoted to objects from the Fritzsche Collection that are now in the Seattle Art Museum, as well as information drawn from interviews with Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche, highlighting their experiences as collectors.
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Mark for Plate with Partridge Eye Décor and Buffon Birds (<em>assiette, œil de perdrix, oiseaux Buffon</em>, slide 59)
LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Plates (Tableware)—France—18th century | Porcelain—Marks | Dodin, Charles-Nicolas—Pictorial works
<br />Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | decorative plates | plates (general, dishes) | porcelain marks
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 59 is handwritten on the slide.
<br />See the <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fritzsche-porcelain-collection/home">Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit</a> for more details on Dodin, painter's marks, and dotted grounds such as “partridge eye” (<em>œil de perdrix</em>).
Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)
Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection
Seattle Art Museum Libraries
1793 (date of object)
October 1984 (date of slide)
Painter, Kirsten Blythe
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Plate with Partridge Eye Décor and Buffon Bird (<em>assiette, œil de perdrix, oiseau Buffon</em>)
LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Plates (Tableware)—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Decoration and ornament—Plant forms—France—18th century | Plants in art | Trees in art | Birds in art | Dodin, Charles-Nicolas—Pictorial works
<br />Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | decorative plates | plates (general, dishes) | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | plant-derived motifs | trees | Aves (class)
35mm color slide of a plate (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Its rim has a green ground color with “partridge eye” decoration (<em>œil de perdrix</em>), which consists of white circles framed by colored dots, each highlighted by a prominent gilded dot at the center. The well of the plate has a white ground and is painted with a bird inspired by the works of Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, in particular his celebrated work on birds, <em>The Natural History of Birds</em> (<em>Histoire naturelle des oiseaux</em>, 1770–86). This plate was painted by 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 59 is handwritten on the slide.
<br />See the <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fritzsche-porcelain-collection/home">Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit</a> for more details on Dodin, painter's marks, and dotted grounds such as “partridge eye” (<em>œil de perdrix</em>).
Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)
Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection
Seattle Art Museum Libraries
1793 (date of object)
20th century (date of slide)
Painter, Kirsten Blythe
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<p>From Dr. Fritzsche’s Collector’s Notes: “This plate probably was made as replacement for a dinner service that had left the Sèvres factory five years previously. It matches plates from the celebrated ‘Auckland service,’ a gift by Louis XVI to William Eden, envoy from the Court of St. James to the Court of Versailles, 1786…. [In] 2003, our plate ended up with Adrian Sassoon, London dealer, and was pictured in his ‘Sold Library’ # 92. We first met Sassoon in the mid 1980s at the Getty Museum, Malibu; he gave us a rather brief and somewhat hurried tour of the museum’s holdings of its Sèvres porcelain” (Dr. Ulrich Fritzsche, “Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection of Vincennes–Sèvres Porcelain,” unpublished manuscript, Seattle Art Museum Library Archives, 2018). The complete Collector’s Notes are available for viewing <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2991">here</a>.</p>
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Mark for Litron Cup and Saucer (<em>gobelet litron et soucoupe</em>, slide 58a)
LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Drinking cups—France—18th century | Porcelain—Marks | Dodin, Charles-Nicolas—Pictorial works
<br />Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | cups (drinking vessels) | porcelain marks
35mm color slide of a porcelain mark for the litron cup and saucer in Slides 58a–c. 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). Both the number 58 and the year “1784” are handwritten on the slide.
<br />See the <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fritzsche-porcelain-collection/home">Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit</a> for more details on the litron cup, Dodin, and blue ground colors such as the king's blue (<em>bleu du roi</em>).
Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)
Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection
Seattle Art Museum Libraries
1784 (date of object)
July 1986 (date of slide)
Painter, Kirsten Blythe
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Litron Cup (<em>gobelet litron</em>)
LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Drinking cups—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Decoration and ornament—Plant forms—France—18th century | Urns in art | Dodin, Charles-Nicolas—Pictorial works
<br />Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | cups (drinking vessels) | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | flower (motif) | floral patterns | plant-derived motifs | urns
35mm color slide of a litron cup (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The ground color is a dark blue known as the king's blue (<em>bleu du roi</em>), overlaid with tooled gilding of garlands, scrolls, foliage, and urns. This is a side view of <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2986">Slide 58b</a>. The number 58 is handwritten on the slide.
<br />See the <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fritzsche-porcelain-collection/home">Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit</a> for more details on the litron cup, Dodin, and diverse blue ground colors such as the king's blue (<em>bleu du roi</em>).
Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)
Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection
Seattle Art Museum Libraries
1784 (date of object)
May 1978 (date of slide)
Painter, Kirsten Blythe
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From Dr. Fritzsche’s Collector’s Notes: “Sold at Sotheby’s, no. 28, March 14, 1967, to Newman & Newman, London dealers. My very first piece of important Sèvres porcelain, bought in 1974 for $750 from Joe Watkins Antiques, Vancouver, B.C.; he had acquired it from Mr. Wardlaw, an eccentric Englishman, then living in Vancouver. I had driven up several times to look at the cup and saucer before buying it. I just couldn’t make up my mind about buying such an expensive piece of porcelain (for me anyway at the time). I never regretted it! Subsequently I visited Mr. Wardlaw in his apartment to look at potential further pieces. He was visibly disappointed when I left having bought only the small tea caddy (slide 38)” (Dr. Ulrich Fritzsche, “Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection of Vincennes–Sèvres Porcelain,” unpublished manuscript, Seattle Art Museum Library Archives, 2018). The complete Collector’s Notes are available for viewing <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2991">here</a>.
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Litron Cup (<em>gobelet litron</em>)
LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Drinking cups—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Landscapes on porcelain—France—18th century | Decoration and ornament—Plant forms—France—18th century | Birds in art | Trees in art | Female nude in art | Dodin, Charles-Nicolas—Pictorial works
<br />Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | cups (drinking vessels) | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | landscapes (representations) | floral patterns | plant-derived motifs | trees | Aves (class) | nudes (representations)
35mm color slide of a litron cup (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The ground color is a dark blue known as the king's blue (<em>bleu du roi</em>), overlaid with tooled gilding of garlands, scrolls, foliage, and urns. The central reserve depicts two nude women, pointing to doves in the foreground, and framed by trees in the background. Fritzsche (2018) notes that the scene in the reserve was painted by Charles-Nicolas Dodin (1734–1803; active 1754–1802), and based on a work by François Lemoyne (1688–1737). Dodin was a painter whose “meticulous technique” was “unrivalled” at the porcelain factory (Savill 1988, 3:1029–30). The cup is an example of a <em>gobelet litron</em> (litron cup), which has a distinctive, straight-sided, cylindrical shape, and was the most common form of teacup produced at the Sèvres factory. For a side-view of this cup, see <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2987">Slide 58c</a>. For the matching saucer, see <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2985">Slide 58a</a>. The number 58 is handwritten on the slide.
See the <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fritzsche-porcelain-collection/home">Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit</a> for more details on the litron cup, Dodin, and diverse blue ground colors such as the king's blue (<em>bleu du roi</em>).
Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)
Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection
Seattle Art Museum Libraries
1784 (date of object)
May 1978 (date of slide)
Painter, Kirsten Blythe
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.
<p>From Dr. Fritzsche’s Collector’s Notes: “Sold at Sotheby’s, no. 28, March 14, 1967, to Newman & Newman, London dealers. My very first piece of important Sèvres porcelain, bought in 1974 for $750 from Joe Watkins Antiques, Vancouver, B.C.; he had acquired it from Mr. Wardlaw, an eccentric Englishman, then living in Vancouver. I had driven up several times to look at the cup and saucer before buying it. I just couldn’t make up my mind about buying such an expensive piece of porcelain (for me anyway at the time). I never regretted it! Subsequently I visited Mr. Wardlaw in his apartment to look at potential further pieces. He was visibly disappointed when I left having bought only the small tea caddy (slide 38)” (Dr. Ulrich Fritzsche, “Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection of Vincennes–Sèvres Porcelain,” unpublished manuscript, Seattle Art Museum Library Archives, 2018). The complete Collector’s Notes are available for viewing <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2991">here</a>.</p>
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Litron Cup and Saucer (<em>gobelet litron et soucoupe</em>)
LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Drinking cups—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Landscapes on porcelain—France—18th century | Decoration and ornament—Plant forms—France—18th century | Flowers in art | Birds in art | Trees in art | Children in art | Cherubs (Art) | Female nude in art | Urns in art | Dodin, Charles-Nicolas—Pictorial works
<br />Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | saucers (plates) | cups (drinking vessels) | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | landscapes (representations) | flower (motif) | floral patterns | plant-derived motifs | trees | Aves (class) | nudes (representations) | putti (children) | urns
35mm color slide of a litron cup and saucer (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The ground color is a dark blue known as the king's blue (<em>bleu du roi</em>), overlaid with tooled gilding of garlands, scrolls, foliage, and urns. The central reserve on the saucer depicts a female nude with Cupid; his colorful quiver of arrows is prominently displayed behind them. Behind them is a stylized landscape with a tree and a mountain. On the cup, the central reserve depicts two nude women, pointing to doves in the foreground, and framed by trees in the background. Fritzsche (2018) notes that the scene in the reserve was painted by Charles-Nicolas Dodin (1734–1803; active 1754–1802), a painter whose “meticulous technique” was “unrivalled” at the porcelain factory (Savill 1988, 3:1029–30). Dodin’s painting was based on a work by François Lemoyne (1688–1737). The cup is an example of a <em>gobelet litron</em> (litron cup), which has a distinctive, straight-sided, cylindrical shape, and was the most common form of teacup produced at the Sèvres factory. For an enlarged view of the cup, see <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2986">Slide 58b</a> and <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2987">Slide 58c</a>. The number 58 is handwritten on the slide.
<br />See the <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fritzsche-porcelain-collection/home">Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit</a> for more details on the litron cup, Dodin, and diverse blue ground colors such as the king's blue (<em>bleu du roi</em>).
Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)
Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection
Seattle Art Museum Libraries
1784 (date of object)
20th century (date of slide)
Painter, Kirsten Blythe
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.
<p>From Dr. Fritzsche’s Collector’s Notes: “Sold at Sotheby’s, no. 28, March 14, 1967, to Newman & Newman, London dealers. My very first piece of important Sèvres porcelain, bought in 1974 for $750 from Joe Watkins Antiques, Vancouver, B.C.; he had acquired it from Mr. Wardlaw, an eccentric Englishman, then living in Vancouver. I had driven up several times to look at the cup and saucer before buying it. I just couldn’t make up my mind about buying such an expensive piece of porcelain (for me anyway at the time). I never regretted it! Subsequently I visited Mr. Wardlaw in his apartment to look at potential further pieces. He was visibly disappointed when I left having bought only the small tea caddy (slide 38)” (Dr. Ulrich Fritzsche, “Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection of Vincennes–Sèvres Porcelain,” unpublished manuscript, Seattle Art Museum Library Archives, 2018). The complete Collector’s Notes are available for viewing <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2991">here</a>.</p>
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Marks for Plate from the Catherine the Great Service (<em>assiette</em>, slide 56)
LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Plates (Tableware)—France—18th century | Porcelain—Marks | Tandart, Jean-Baptiste —Pictorial works | Chauvaux, Michel-Barnabé —Pictorial works
<br />Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | decorative plates | plates (general, dishes) | porcelain marks
35mm color slide of two porcelain marks on the plate from the Catherine the Great Service in Slide 56. One mark (3 dots) is for Jean-Baptiste Tandart <em>aîné</em> (the elder; 1729–1816, active 1754–1800 or 1803), who was one of the “most skilled flower-painters” of his era (Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987, 96). The gilder’s mark (cross-hatched lines at the bottom of the image) is for Michel-Barnabé Chauvaux <em>aîné</em> (the elder; also known as Chauveaux, active ca. 1753–88), a “gilder and painter of ornaments” (Tardy 1981, 533). The number 56 is handwritten on the slide.
<br />See the <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fritzsche-porcelain-collection/home">Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit</a> for more details on the Catherine the Great Service, the color <em>bleu céleste</em> (celestial blue), Tandart, Chauvaux, and porcelain marks.
Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)
Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection
Seattle Art Museum Libraries
1782 (date of object)
June 1982 (date of slide)
Painter, Kirsten Blythe
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Plate from the Catherine the Great Service (<em>assiette</em>)
LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Plates (Tableware)—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Decoration and ornament—Plant forms—France—18th century | Flowers in art | Plants in art | Crowns in art | Tandart, Jean-Baptiste —Pictorial works | Chauvaux, Michel-Barnabé —Pictorial works
<br />Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | decorative plates | plates (general, dishes) | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | flower (motif) | floral patterns | plant-derived motifs | crowns (headdresses)
35mm color slide of a plate from the Catherine the Great Service (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). It has a turquoise blue ground color (known as <em>bleu céleste</em>), a frieze of gilt scrolls (<em>rinceaux</em>), and small oval reserves depicting scenes from classical antiquity <em>en grisaille</em>, in imitation of bas-reliefs. This is part of a celebrated dinner- and dessert-service commissioned in 1776 by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. At the center of the plate is Catherine’s monogram (E II) (Savill 1988, 2:762–82; Dawson 1994, 141–44; Roth and Le Corbeiller 2000, 281–83). The plate has a mark for Jean-Baptiste Tandart <em>aîné</em> (the elder; 1729–1816, active 1754–1800 or 1803), who was one of the “most skilled flower-painters” of his era (Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987, 96; dates from Savill 1988, 3:1070; Tardy 1981, 566), as well as a gilder’s mark for Michel-Barnabé Chauvaux <em>aîné</em> (the elder; also known as Chauveaux, active ca. 1753–88), a “gilder and painter of ornaments” (Tardy 1981, 533; Savill 1988, 3:1020–21). The number 56 is handwritten on the slide.
<br />See the <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fritzsche-porcelain-collection/home">Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit</a> for more details on the Catherine the Great Service, the color <em>bleu céleste</em> (celestial blue), Tandart, Chauvaux, and porcelain marks.
Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)
Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection
Seattle Art Museum Libraries
1782 (date of object)
June 1982 (date of slide)
Painter, Kirsten Blythe
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.
<p>Dr. Fritzsche’s complete Collector’s Notes are available for viewing <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2991">here</a> (Dr. Ulrich Fritzsche, “Ulrich & Stella Fritzsche Collection of Vincennes–Sèvres Porcelain,” unpublished manuscript, Seattle Art Museum Library Archives, 2018). In this document, Dr. Ulrich Fritzsche recounts the details of every object in his collection, such as provenance and historical notes.</p>
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Litron Cup with Dolphin Handles (<em>gobelet litron</em>), Detail
LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Ceramic tableware—France—18th century | Drinking cups—France—18th century | Gilding—France—18th century | Decoration and ornament—Plant forms—France—18th century | Flowers in art | Dolphins in art
<br />Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | cups (drinking vessels) | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | flower (motif) | floral patterns | dolphins (animals)
35mm color slide of a cup (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This is an enlarged view of Slide 55a, showing the dolphin handle and other details of gilding and painted decoration. The number 55 is handwritten on the slide.
<br />Find more on the litron cup and other types of teacups in the <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/exhibits/show/fritzsche-porcelain-collection/home">Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit</a>.
Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)
Dr. Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection
Seattle Art Museum Libraries
18th century (date of object)
May 1990 (date of slide)
Painter, Kirsten Blythe
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<p>Dr. Fritzsche’s complete Collector’s Notes are available for viewing <a href="https://samlibraries.omeka.net/items/show/2991">here</a> (Dr. Ulrich Fritzsche, “Ulrich & Stella Fritzsche Collection of Vincennes–Sèvres Porcelain,” unpublished manuscript, Seattle Art Museum Library Archives, 2018). In this document, Dr. Ulrich Fritzsche recounts the details of every object in his collection, such as provenance and historical notes.</p>
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