One of a Pair of Vases (Vase chinois; vase à pied de globe)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (French, active 1756 - present) (Manufacturer)

Possibly Jean-Claude Duplessis le Père (French and Italian, ca. 1695-1774) (Designer)

Jean Pierre Boulanger le père (French, 1722-1785) (Decorator)

1774

soft paste porcelain
(18th and 19th Centuries )

The white ground of this vase is almost entirely covered with tooled gilding against dark blue. The central panel depicts putti bearing military arms.

Inscription

[Factory Mark] In cover: Intertwined Lls; [Date] Letter: V (1774); [Decorator's Mark] B (Boulanger, Jean-Pierre père [active 1754-1784])

Provenance

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King Louis XVI, Château of Saint Cloud; Collection of the Marchioness of Conyngham [according to Hodgkins] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, no. 48 [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.

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Geographies

France, Sèvres (Place of Origin)

Measurements

Overall: H: 19 in. (48.2 cm) / Vase without lid: H: 15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm) / Lid only: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1928

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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48.640

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