Minneapolis Institute of Art
De la Bouëxière Ewer
Vincennes Porcelain FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-b7dba8abeab0
- Date
- 1753–55
- Medium
- Painted and glazed porcelain, gilt
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 109925
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
This Ewer was originally commissioned on February 19, 1753, by Jean Gaillard de la Bouëxière, the patron of the Grand Salon which surrounds us. But according to the archives, when the ewer was finished in 1755, it was delivered to Madame de Pompadour, who must have been infatuated with this Ewer when she first saw it. With its elegant shape, its refined pictorial decoration of a flower bouquet and a butterfly, its energetic gold hatching and its intensive color fields of white and celestial blue, the De la Bouëxière Ewer epitomizes the artistic essence of the Vincennes porcelain factory at the height of its production, after it had surpassed Meissen as the most fashionable porcelain maker in Europe, and just before the founding of Sèvres. France
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- Credit line
- Gift of funds from the Groves Foundation
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