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One of a Pair of Vases (Vase à feuilles de laurier)

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

Style of Charles Nicolas Dodin (French, 1734-1803) (Artist)

After François Boucher (French, 1703-1770) (Artist)

1772

soft paste porcelain
(18th and 19th Centuries )

This vase and its pair (48.625), are decorated with the "bleu nouveau" ground color and have handles in the form of rings of laurel leaves. The vases are decorated with panels showing amorous shepherds and shepherdesses. Pithou the elder painted these scenes after Francois Boucher's paintings "La Musique pastorale" and "Les Amusements de la campagne" (1743).

Inscription

[Factory Mark] Intertwined Lls; [Date] Letter: T (1772); [Modeler's Mark] Incised in the glaze: PT (initials could refer to either Pierre-Edmond Tristant aîné (c.1741-1788), a turner, repairer, and sculptor of soft and hard paste; or Philibert Choulet aîné (op.1756-1779), a turner and possibly repairer of soft and hard paste)

Provenance

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Collection of Sir Anthony Rothschild [according to Hodgkins, remains to be verified]; E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, no. 51 [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

H: 12 13/16 in. (32.6 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.

48.626

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