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These bottle coolers combine a traditionally European form based on silver models with designs and compositions that emulate Chinese and Japanese porcelain. Towering over the figures the luxuriant, vividly colored vegetation is characteristic of chinoiserie, imitations of East Asian decoration and design common in 18th-century European decorative arts. Distorted by the European imagination, these imitations were not accurate representations of the cultures from which they drew inspiration.
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125700
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Pair of Bottle Coolers (seaux à rafraîchir)
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125700
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Pair of Bottle Coolers (seaux à rafraîchir)
description
These bottle coolers combine a traditionally European form based on silver models with designs and compositions that emulate Chinese and Japanese porcelain. Towering over the figures the luxuriant, vividly colored vegetation is characteristic of chinoiserie, imitations of East Asian decoration and design common in 18th-century European decorative arts. Distorted by the European imagination, these imitations were not accurate representations of the cultures from which they drew inspiration.
date
c. 1740
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en
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Q60779776
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Ceramic
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Overall: 15.7 x 21.9 x 18.8 cm (6 3/16 x 8 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
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France, Villeroy, 18th century
accession
1947.6
Source extras
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Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
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Pair of Bottle Coolers (seaux à rafraîchir), c. 1740. Villeroy Factory, Mennecy- Villeroy Factory (French). Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration; overall: 15.7 x 21.9 x 18.8 cm (6 3/16 x 8 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1947.60
collection
Decorative Arts
didYouKnow
The four figures on horseback are derived from prints French designer Jean Antoine Fraisse modeled after textiles, lacquers, and porcelains found in the collection of Louis-Henri, duke of Bourbon.
citations
citation
Darblay, Ayme. <em>Villeroy: son passé, sa fabrique de porcelaine, son état actuel</em>. Paris: Picard, 1901.
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p. 88, pl. 29
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Foote, Helen S. "French Soft-Paste Porcelain." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 34 (December 1947): 249-250.
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p. 250
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Foote, Helen S. "Soft-Paste Porcelain in France." <em>Art Quarterly </em>XI (Autumn 1948)
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p. 340, 344; figs. 11, 12
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 134
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 134
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Jedding, Hermann. <em>Europäisches Porzellan</em>. München: Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1971.
page_number
p. 256; no. 786
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
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Reproduced: p. 176
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Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
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Mentioned: p, 59; Reproduced: p. 59, fig. 61 and colorplate 61 after p. 54
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Duchon, Nicole.<em> La Manufacture de porcelaine de Mennecy Villeroy</em>. Le Mée-sur-Seine: Editions Amatteis, 1988.
page_number
p. 22
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Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1991.
page_number
p. 108
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 06:29:58.885000
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125700
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Decorative Art and Design
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Decorative Arts
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Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
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