Two-Handled Vase

Description Exhibitions Provenance Inscription Credit

Description This unusual red vase is part of a suite of three that Louis XVI purchased in the Porcelain Dining Room at Versailles in December 1782 for 6,000 livres. The ormolu mounts are attributed to Jean-Claude Duplessis, fils (1730-1783).

Exhibitions

Splendors of Versailles. Mississippi Arts Pavilion, Jackson. 1998.

Provenance Collection of Louis XVI, King of France, Chateau de Versailles, King's Apartment, December 1782, by purchase [from the maker at the annual Sèvres Manufactory exhibition]; Philippe Sichel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore, November 25, 1891, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Factory Mark] Intertwined Lls; In gold: crown; [Date] Letter in gold: EE (1782); [Gilder's Mark] In gold: flower (attributed to Nicolas Schradre)

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters, 1891

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Creators

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (French, active 1756 - present) (Manufacturer)
Charles de Wailly (French, 1729-1798) (?) (Designer)
Nicolas Schradre (Gilder)
Jean-Claude Duplessis le Père (French and Italian, ca. 1695-1774) (Gilder)

Period

1782

Medium

soft paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mounts
(Ceramics)

Accession Number

48.754

Measurements

H: 21 9/16 in. (54.7 cm)

Geographies

France, Sèvres (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View

Two-Handled Vase	Title
1782	Period
48.755	Accession
sevres, versailles	Tags