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Tulip-Shaped Vase

French ? (Artist)

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

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

19th century

soft paste porcelain
(18th and 19th Centuries )

This vase (and its mate, Walters 48.611) is probably a nineteenth-century replica of the Vincennes or Sèvres "vase à oreilles," designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis and first introduced in the mid-1750s.

Inscription

[Factory Mark] Intertwined Lls

Provenance

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E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, no. 9 [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.

Exhibitions

1965	Continental Table Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century. de Young Museum, San Francisco.
1959	Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effects. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore.

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Geographies

France, Sèvres (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 8 1/4 in. (20.9 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1928

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

48.612

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