Vase (vase Duplessis) with Cover

Porcelain: ca. 1750-60 (?); Decoration and Gilt Metal Mounts: 1st half 19th century H: 6 15/16 in. (17.7 cm) Citation Source image

This vase is much changed from its original appearance. Its original form, created at the French factory Vincennes in the early 1750s, is known as a “vase Duplessis” after its designer, the goldsmith Jean-Claude Duplessis. Its urn-shaped form was originally much taller and has...

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11020
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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