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Pair of Vases (Vases à jet d'eau)
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This pair of fountain-shaped vases and a similar pair in the Wallace Collection, London, have been related to a manufactory inventory entry of 1766 for a new model of "vases à jet d'eau" ordered by Louis XV. The ground color is "bleu nouveau." The dolphins might be a play on the French word "dauphin," which refers to both the animal and to the heir apparent of the French throne. In 1765, Louis XVI became Dauphin, and the vases were perhaps created to commemorate that.
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Provenance
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Lord Willpughby d'Eresby [according to Hodgkins]; E. M. Hodgkins Collection, no. 55 [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.
Geographies
France, Sèvres (Place of Origin)
Measurements
48.637: 14 1/8 in. (35.9 cm);
48.638: 14 1/16 in. (35.7 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1928
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
VO.25 (48.637, 48.638)