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Source Description
This turquoise, or "bleu céleste," oviform vase bears reserves (painted panels on the body of the vase) showing, one one side, a cavalier scene of a trumpeter and peasants by Charles Nicolas Dodin, and, on the other, military trophies. The reserves are surrounded with gilt garlands and laurel leaves. The vase is also adorned with two putti standing on the handles stringing garlands of laurels around the neck. There are similar vases in the Musée du Louvre as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Kress Collection. It forms part of a garniture (set) with WAM 48.563 and WAM 48.564.
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Document identity
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16727
label
Vase (Vase colonne de Paris)
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object
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Source metadata
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16727
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object
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normalized
title
Vase (Vase colonne de Paris)
description
This turquoise, or "bleu céleste," oviform vase bears reserves (painted panels on the body of the vase) showing, one one side, a cavalier scene of a trumpeter and peasants by Charles Nicolas Dodin, and, on the other, military trophies. The reserves are surrounded with gilt garlands and laurel leaves. The vase is also adorned with two putti standing on the handles stringing garlands of laurels around the neck. There are similar vases in the Musée du Louvre as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Kress Collection. It forms part of a garniture (set) with WAM 48.563 and WAM 48.564.
provenance
Earl of Pembroke; Earl of Pembroke Collection Sale, May 8, 1851, lot 383; Mrs. Lyne Stephes [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Baron Schroeder [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Baron Schroder Sale, Christie's, July 5, 1910, lots 45 and 46; E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, no. 62 [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
1779
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ceramics
vases
covers
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4
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4
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 15 3/4 in. (40 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Factory Mark] Intertwined Lls; [Date] Letters in blue: bb (1779); [Decorator's Mark] In blue: K (Dodin
Charles Nicolas); [Gilder's Mark]: LG (not visible
but possibly Le Guay
Etienne-Henry
aîné
père)
RelatedObjects
27523
34223
med
soft paste porcelain
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2402
1916
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EAN
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none
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