
Cleveland Museum of Art
Covered Vase (1 of 2)
Meissen Porcelain FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-8f0221000226
- Date
- 1749
- Medium
- porcelain mounted in gilt bronze
- Culture
- Germany, 18th century
- Department
- Decorative Art and Design
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 123693
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
One of these vases is dated 1749. They were perhaps part of a set of four covered vases that we know from documents were acquired by Mme. de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV in 1752.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan collection; (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York).
Part of a LinkedCulture topic
18th Century Porcelain FigurinesThese objects are decorative ceramic figures and figure groups made from soft-paste or hard-paste porcelain during the 18th century, produced by major European porcelain factories including Meissen, Sèvres, Derby, Chelse
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