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One of a Pair of Vases (Vase à feuilles de laurier)
(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).
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Provenance
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Collection of Sir Anthony Nathan de Rothschild, 1st Baronet (1810–1876) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1]. Collection of Edwin Marriott Hodgkins (1860–1932), Paris, by 1927 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; with A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York, by 1928 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928; by bequest to the Walters Art Museum, 1931.
[1]. Provenance not confirmed, as given by Edwin Marriott Hodgkins: Catalogue of an Important Collection of Old Sèvres Porcelain, Louis XV and Louis XVI Period, Belonging to E.M. Hodgkins, Paris ([Paris?]: Edwin Marriott Hodgkins, 1927), numbers 50-51: “A Pair of Vases and Covers. Sèvres Porcelain. Pâte tendre. Oviform shape.... Formerly in the collection of Sir Anthony de Rothschild.”
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.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.626
