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Although the mark on this vase indicates that it was made in the eighteenth century at the Vincennes manufactory, its painted decoration was probably added later, in the nineteenth century.

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Document identity
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18334
label
Vase (Vase Duplessis)
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Source metadata
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18334
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object
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title
Vase (Vase Duplessis)
description
Although the mark on this vase indicates that it was made in the eighteenth century at the Vincennes manufactory, its painted decoration was probably added later, in the nineteenth century.
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
Vase: 1756 (?); Decoration: 19th century (?)
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CC0
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en
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Ceramics
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import
dimensionsRaw
H: 8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Factory Mark] painted in blue: Intertwined LLs; [Date] Letter painted in blue: C [1756]; [Decorator's Mark?] painted in blue: line with three dots
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soft paste porcelain
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4819
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EAN
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none
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