Art Institute of Chicago
Elephant Candelabrum Vase (Vase à Tête d'Eléphant)
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (French, founded 1740)
- Date
- 1757–58
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding
- Culture
- Sèvres
- Department
- Applied Arts of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This model is one of the more exotic forms created by Jean-Claude Duplessis. The elephants’ trunks originally supported double candle sockets that are now missing. The idea of combining elephant heads with a vase may have derived from a Ming dynasty Chinese vase or a Meissen candelabrum. The Sèvres painter Pierre-Louis-Philippe Armand accentuated the sensuous qualities of the elephants by framing their brown eyes with pink lids and long eyelashes.
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- Object type
- AAT300386308
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