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Pair of Vases (pot-pourri à bobèches)

Date

1760

Medium

Soft paste porcelain with lead glaze, enamel and gilding

Culture

French

Department

Decorative Arts

Institution

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Designed to hold two candles each, this pair of vases would have formed part of a garniture of similarly decorated vessels. The decoration on these vessels--pink and green ground colors and scenes based on seventeenth-century paintings--typifies the Rococo style used at the Sèvres porcelain manufactory around 1760. Charles-Nicolas Dodin based the rustic scene of a standing couple on a painting by the Flemish artist David Teniers the Younger.

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