Elephant Candelabrum Vase (Vase à Tête d'Eléphant)

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Elephant Candelabrum Vase (Vase à Tête d'Eléphant)

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (French, founded 1740)LinkedCulture matchlcp-ee31089ce69a

Date
1757–58
Medium
Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding
Culture
Sèvres
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
108575

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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Joseph Maier and Arthur Lewis Liebman Memorial: Gift of Kenneth J. Maier, M.D.

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