id: 149041 accession number: 1977.182 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.182 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:41.033000 Covered Tureen on Stand (Pot-à-oille), 1735–38. Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (French, 1695–1750), Pierre-François Bonnestrenne (French), Henry Adnet (French, 1745). Silver; overall: 36.9 x 38.4 x 31.8 cm (14 1/2 x 15 1/8 x 12 1/2 in.); average: 35 x 38.4 x 31.8 cm (13 3/4 x 15 1/8 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1977.182 title: Covered Tureen on Stand (Pot-à-oille) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1735–38 creation date earliest: 1735 creation date latest: 1738 current location: 216A French and German creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Paris technique: silver department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Silver find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (French, 1695–1750) - designer * Pierre-François Bonnestrenne (French) - maker Master 1714 * Henry Adnet (French, 1745) - maker Master 1712 --- measurements: Overall: 36.9 x 38.4 x 31.8 cm (14 1/2 x 15 1/8 x 12 1/2 in.); Average: 35 x 38.4 x 31.8 cm (13 3/4 x 15 1/8 x 12 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: [Maker’s mark of Pierre−François Bonnestrenne, beneath platter; inside tureen (two marks)] translation: remark: inscription: [Warden's mark for Paris, 1734−1735, beneath platter; inside tureen; inside cover] translation: remark: inscription: [Charge mark of Hubert Louvet, Paris, 1732-1738, on platter border; beneath platter; beneath tureen; inside cover; inside tureen (two marks)] translation: remark: inscription: [Discharge mark of Louis Robin mostly used for stamping small work, Paris 1738−1744, on platter border; beneath tureen] translation: remark: inscription: [Warden's mark for Paris, 1736−1737, on platter border] translation: remark: inscription: [Possibly British import mark, London, 1925, on platter border] translation: remark: inscription: [Possibly mark of the British firm Charles & Richard Comyns, on platter border] translation: remark: inscription: [Discharge of Louis Robin mostly used for stamping gold and silver between 1738 and 1744, beneath tureen; outside cover] translation: remark: inscription: [Maker’s mark of Henry-Guillaume Adnet, inside cover] translation: remark: inscription: [Two small undefined marks, inside cover] translation: remark: inscription: [Under the surface of the platter the engraved signature]: “FAIT-PAR-I-A-MEISSONIER-ARCHITECTTE”; [and the weight] “673=5"; “No. [v] I 50 £ b76Sol”; [and the numbers] “A nº 1”; “A nº2” translation: remark: inscription: [On tureen lip]: "MEISSONIER" translation: remark: inscription: [On tureen lip]: “A nº 3”; “A nº2” [in order to place the tureen correctly on the stand] translation: remark: inscription: [Numbers engraved on the stand, the tureen, and the cover to show how the piece should be assembled]: “A nº 1” [on the base of the tureen; beneath the cover; on the platter], “A nº 2” [on the platter], “A nº 3” [on the exterior rim of the tureen], “A nº4”; “A nº 5” [outside the cover], “A nº 7” [on the border of the platter] translation: remark: inscription: [Two warden's marks for Paris, 1735-1736, beneath tureen] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Tanke och form i rokokon (18th Century: Thought and Form in the Rococo Age) opening date: 1979-10-04T04:00:00 Tanke och form i rokokon (18th Century: Thought and Form in the Rococo Age). Nationalmuseum, 103 24 Stockholm, Sweden (organizer) (October 4, 1979-January 6, 1980). title: Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink opening date: 1983-07-26T04:00:00 Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 26-October 9, 1983). title: All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection opening date: 1994-11-23T05:00:00 All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 23, 1994-January 8, 1995). title: Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1720-2008 opening date: 2008-03-07T00:00:00 Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1720-2008. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (March 7-July 6, 2008). title: Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings opening date: 2016-07-16T04:00:00 Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston [1711–1773], England, by descent to his wife, Elizabeth Chudleigh date: 1740-1773 footnotes: citations: Elizabeth Chudleigh, sometime Duchess of Kingston [1721–1788], England date: 1773-1788 footnotes: citations: Prince Alexander Bezborodko [1747–1799], Russia date: 1788-1799 (?) footnotes: citations: Count Elie Bezborodko [1756–1815], Russia date: 1799-1815 (?) footnotes: citations: Count Alexander Kushelev-Bezborodko [1800-1855], Russia date: 1815-1855 (?) footnotes: citations: Alexander Alexandrovich Polovtsoff [1832-1909], Russia, by descent to his heirs date: 1855-1909 (?) footnotes: citations: (Jacques Seligmann [1858-1923], Paris, France, 1909, sold to John Pierpont Morgan) date: footnotes: citations: John Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913] date: 1909-1913 (?) footnotes: citations: (Charles and Richard Comyns, London, England, 1925-1926, sold to anonymous buyer) date: 1925-1926 footnotes: citations: (Peter Zervudachi [b. 1921], Galerie du Lac, Vevey, Switzerland, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1977 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1977- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 177 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n197 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Museum of Art Has Purchased Jointly with Stichting Collectie Thyssen—Bornemisza the Kingston Tureens,” January 4, 1978, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr2515 Hawley, Henry H. "Meissonnier's Silver for the Duke of Kingston." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 10 (December 1978): 312-52. page number: Reproduced: figs. 3, 7, 16 url: wwww.jstor.org/stable/25159607 Truman, Charles. Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Silver. London: Conran Octopus, 1996. page number: Mentioned: p. 93 url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=29221527 Donley, Gregory M, "A Discerning Eye", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 39 no. 05, May 1999 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1999-05/page/n5 May, Sally Ruth. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: no. 40, p. 42 url: Jolly, Anna. Seidengewebe des 18. Jahrhunderts. 2. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2002. page number: Mentioned: p. 34 url: Fuhring, Peter. "The Silver Inventory from 1741 of Louis, duc d'Orleans." Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 8 (2003): 130-145. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 130-131, fig. 1 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079735 Caillaud-de Guido, Laurence. "La courbe rocaille, lien entre les siècles." L'Estampille, l'objet d'art, no. 435 (May 2008).

1989. page number: Referenced: p. 14 url: Böhmer, Achim, and Sara Hausmann. Retrodesign: stylelab. Mainz: Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2009. page number: Mentioned: p. 184 url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=456565304 Franklin, David, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with, New York, NY: Scala Publishers, 2012. page number: Reproduced & mentioned: pp. 214-215 url: Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. Baroque and Rococo. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2012. page number: Mentioned: p. 293, fig. 179 url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=804911527 Truman, Charles, Seoyoung Kim, and Rebecca Wallis. The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Gold Boxes. London: The Trustees of the Wallace Colection, 2013. page number: Mentioned: p. 67, fig. 4.1 url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=746463344 Bidwell, Frederick E., and Leslie Cade. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New York, NY: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014. page number: Reproduced & mentioned: p. 135 url: Schroder, Timothy. "Rococo Silver." In Scrolls of Fantasy: The Rococo and Ceramics in England, C. 1735-C. 1775. Charles Dawson, ed., 7-26. London: English Ceramic Circle, 2015. page number: Reproduced: p. 9, fig. 5 url: Manners, Errol. "The Rococo Porcelain of Europe and its influence on British Ceramics." In Scrolls of Fantasy: The Rococo and Ceramics in England, C. 1735-C. 1775. Charles Dawson, ed., 27-38. London: English Ceramic Circle, 2015. page number: Reproduced: p. 28, fig. 4 url: "Welcome, Ada de Wit: The museum's new curator of decorative art." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 3 (2023): 22-23. page number: Reproduced: P. 23. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.182/1977.182_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.182/1977.182_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.182/1977.182_full.tif