assiette, œil de perdrix, oiseaux Buffon, slide 59)]]> Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | decorative plates | plates (general, dishes) | porcelain marks]]> See the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit for more details on Dodin, painter's marks, and dotted grounds such as “partridge eye” (œil de perdrix).]]> Complete Bibliography for the Fritzsche Porcelain Collection]]> assiette, œil de perdrix, oiseau Buffon)]]> 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)]]> œil de perdrix), 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, The Natural History of Birds (Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, 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.]]> See the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit for more details on Dodin, painter's marks, and dotted grounds such as “partridge eye” (œil de perdrix).]]> 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 Ulrich Fritzsche, “Ulrich and Stella Fritzsche Collection of Vincennes–Sèvres Porcelain,” unpublished manuscript, Seattle Art Museum Library Archives, 2018).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 here.

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gobelet litron et soucoupe, slide 58a)]]> Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | cups (drinking vessels) | porcelain marks]]> See the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit for more details on the litron cup, Dodin, and blue ground colors such as the king's blue (bleu du roi).]]> Complete Bibliography for the Fritzsche Porcelain Collection]]> gobelet litron)]]> 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]]> bleu du roi), overlaid with tooled gilding of garlands, scrolls, foliage, and urns. This is a side view of Slide 58b. The number 58 is handwritten on the slide.]]> See the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit for more details on the litron cup, Dodin, and diverse blue ground colors such as the king's blue (bleu du roi).]]> here.]]> Complete Bibliography for the Fritzsche Porcelain Collection]]> gobelet litron)]]> 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)]]> bleu du roi), 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 gobelet litron (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 Slide 58c. For the matching saucer, see Slide 58a. The number 58 is handwritten on the slide.]]> Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit for more details on the litron cup, Dodin, and diverse blue ground colors such as the king's blue (bleu du roi).]]> 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 here.

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gobelet litron et soucoupe)]]> 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]]> bleu du roi), 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 gobelet litron (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 Slide 58b and Slide 58c. The number 58 is handwritten on the slide.]]> See the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit for more details on the litron cup, Dodin, and diverse blue ground colors such as the king's blue (bleu du roi).]]> 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 here.

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assiette, slide 56)]]> Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | decorative plates | plates (general, dishes) | porcelain marks]]> aîné (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 aîné (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.]]> See the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit for more details on the Catherine the Great Service, the color bleu céleste (celestial blue), Tandart, Chauvaux, and porcelain marks.]]> Complete Bibliography for the Fritzsche Porcelain Collection]]> assiette)]]> 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)]]> bleu céleste), a frieze of gilt scrolls (rinceaux), and small oval reserves depicting scenes from classical antiquity en grisaille, 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 aîné (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 aîné (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.]]> See the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit for more details on the Catherine the Great Service, the color bleu céleste (celestial blue), Tandart, Chauvaux, and porcelain marks.]]> Dr. Fritzsche’s complete Collector’s Notes are available for viewing here (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.

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gobelet litron), Detail]]> Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | cups (drinking vessels) | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | flower (motif) | floral patterns | dolphins (animals)]]> Find more on the litron cup and other types of teacups in the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit.]]> Dr. Fritzsche’s complete Collector’s Notes are available for viewing here (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.

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gobelet litron) and Saucer (soucoupe)]]> Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | dinnerware | saucers (plates) | cups (drinking vessels) | porcelain painting (image-making) | gilding-technique | flower (motif) | floral patterns | dolphins (animals)]]> gobelet litron (litron cup) has a distinctive, straight-sided, cylindrical shape, and was the most common form of teacup produced at the Sèvres factory. The number 55 is handwritten on the slide.]]> Find more on the litron cup and other types of teacups in the Fritzsche Porcelain Exhibit.]]> Dr. Fritzsche’s complete Collector’s Notes are available for viewing here (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.

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