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Source Description
This pair of fountain-shaped vases and a similar pair in the Wallace Collection, London, have been related to a manufactory inventory entry of 1766 for a new model of "vases à jet d'eau" ordered by Louis XV. The ground color is "bleu nouveau." The dolphins might be a play on the French word "dauphin," which refers to both the animal and to the heir apparent of the French throne. In 1765, Louis XVI became Dauphin, and the vases were perhaps created to commemorate that.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
77459
label
Pair of Vases (Vases à jet d'eau)
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.25 (48.637, 48.638)
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
77459
sourceUrl
https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.25 (48.637, 48.638)
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Pair of Vases (Vases à jet d'eau)
description
This pair of fountain-shaped vases and a similar pair in the Wallace Collection, London, have been related to a manufactory inventory entry of 1766 for a new model of "vases à jet d'eau" ordered by Louis XV. The ground color is "bleu nouveau." The dolphins might be a play on the French word "dauphin," which refers to both the animal and to the heir apparent of the French throne. In 1765, Louis XVI became Dauphin, and the vases were perhaps created to commemorate that.
provenance
Lord Willpughby d'Eresby [according to Hodgkins]; E. M. Hodgkins Collection, no. 55 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1765
citationUrl
https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.25 (48.637, 48.638)
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
vases
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
48.637: 14 1/8 in. (35.9 cm);48.638: 14 1/16 in. (35.7 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Modeler's Mark] R (R may refer to Roger père
a répareur)
ap (these incised letters are hard to decipher and were not originally recorded: possibly ap for Alexis Pépin
répareur)
med
soft-paste porcelain
creator_ids
1916
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
81aec6b6e585935e