Decorative arts
Vase [ 2 of 2]
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- Date
- 1758
- Accession number
- 27.43
- Makers
- Flowers painted by Charles-Louis Mereaud jeune(Opens in new tab) (French, 1735–1780)
- Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory(Opens in new tab) (French, born 1756)
- Dimensions
- 7 1/2 x 6 x 5 in. (19.1 x 15.2 x 12.7 cm.)
- Medium
- soft-paste porcelain, underglaze blue (bleu lapis) and overglaze green ground colors, polychrome enamel decoration, gilding
- Description
- The oval vase is in two parts. The lower part with four feet and vertical sides, has a pierced shoulder with four large opeings framed by a cartouche of six to eught smaller openings; indentations run from the feet to the rim. The upper, trumpet shaped part, with matching indentations, is pierces with ten holes at the base, concealed when the two parts are assembles, and waisted above the flange resting on the lower part. Decorated with underglaze blue (bleu lapis) and green (verd) ground colors, and painted in white reserves, two each in the lower and upper parts with flowers. The blue ground is overlaid with caillouté gilding; the green ground, edged with gilding forms scrolls, husks, and cartouches around the reserves.
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