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Source Description
The oviform vase has a blue (so called "bleu nouveau") ground and is decorated with a mythological scene, "The Sacrifice of Iphigenia," from Ovid's Metamorphosis on one side, and a landscape on the other. It bears an additional decoration of "jewels" composed of enamel drops over gold foil (pearls, rossettes, strawberry leaves, laurel leaves, and berries in white, green, and orange) around these scenes, and on the neck, foot, and cover. The pierced and gilded handles run along the full length of the vase.
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Document identity
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35385
label
Oviform Vase (Vase Paris nouvelle forme)
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Source metadata
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35385
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object
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title
Oviform Vase (Vase Paris nouvelle forme)
description
The oviform vase has a blue (so called "bleu nouveau") ground and is decorated with a mythological scene, "The Sacrifice of Iphigenia," from Ovid's Metamorphosis on one side, and a landscape on the other. It bears an additional decoration of "jewels" composed of enamel drops over gold foil (pearls, rossettes, strawberry leaves, laurel leaves, and berries in white, green, and orange) around these scenes, and on the neck, foot, and cover. The pierced and gilded handles run along the full length of the vase.
provenance
E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, no. 68; A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1781
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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Ceramics
vases
covers
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5
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5
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import
dimensionsRaw
H: 16 9/16 in. (42.1 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Factory Mark] painted in blue: Intertwined LLs; [Date] Letter painted in blue: DD [1781]
med
Soft paste porcelain, enamels, gilding
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1916
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EAN
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none
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