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Covered Vase (Vase Boizot)

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

Possibly Pierre Adolphe Dammouse (France, 1817 - 1880) (Decorator)

Possibly Marc-Louis-Emmanuel Solon (French, 1835 - 1913) (Decorator)

1868-1869

vase: porcelain, glaze, gilding; mounts: gilded copper alloy
(18th and 19th Centuries )

A major innovation at the Sèvres manufactory during the Second Empire (1852-70) was the introduction a technique of relief decoration known as "pâte-sur-pâte." The figure of the nymph has been created by successively applying several layers of a white clay slip over the pink ground.

Inscription

[Manufacturer’s Mark] stamped in green under the glaze: [in an oval] S.68. [for 1868]
[Manufacturer’s Mark] stamped in red over the glaze: [surrounding a crowned N] DORÉ À SÈVRES 69 [for 1869]

Provenance

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William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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Geographies

France, Sèvres (Place of Origin)

Measurements

Lid (A) H: 2 3/4 × Diam: 2 3/8 in. (7 × 6 cm)
Vase (B) H: 14 × W: 6 3/4 × D: 5 3/4 in. (35.5 × 17.2 × 14.6 cm)
Overall H: 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by William T. Walters

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.

48.757

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