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Vase with Stand

Date
1900
made in
Sèvres, France, Europe
Classification
Ceramics, containers
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
5 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (13.3 x 9.5 cm)
Credit Line
Friends Endowment Fund
Rights
Public Domain
Object Number
1878:1981
c.1900 - 1911
Taxile Doat, Sèvres, France; University City, MO [1]

1911 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Taxile Doat [2]

1945/05/10-12
Sold at auction, "English and Other European Ceramics," Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brothers, New York, NY, May 10-12, 1945, lot no. 372 [3]

1981/10/03 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased at Christie, Manson, and Woods, International, Inc., New York, "Important Art Nouveau and Art Deco," lot no. 125 [4]

Notes:
The Taxile Doat porcelains accessioned in 1911 were made in France at Doat's private studio and assembled by him as a study collection of form and technique. Doat brought the collection to University City, Missouri, intending to sell the works to Edward G. Lewis for the Museum of the Art Academy of the American Woman's League. In 1911 when the Art Academy closed and Doat was planning to return to France, he sold the collection to the City Art Museum. See correspondence from Taxile Doat to W. K. Bixby, President of the Board of Control, City Art Museum, dated March 23, 1912 [SLAM document files].

[1] List entitled "Collection of the Artistic and Technical Ceramics of Taxile Doat acquired by the City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri" [SLAM document files].

[2] Minutes of the Board of Control of the City Art Museum, March 29, 1912. Accessioned as 354:1911.

[3] In January 1945 the Acting Director and Curator proposed disposing of study and storage collections no longer considered appropriate for display [Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, January 4, 1945]. In February the Museum entered a contract with Mr. Kende of Kende Auction Galleries, New York, to dispose of the unspecified collections, including most of the Doat ceramics [Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, February 8, 1945; See "English and Other European Ceramics," Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brothers, New York, NY, May 10-12, 1945, lot no. 372].

[4] Minutes of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, December 18, 1981.

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