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Vase à oreilles
Factory:
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Painter:
Morin, Jean-Louis
Soft-paste porcelain vase, painted in enamels, and gilded, with a panel containing a scene of sailors, and another of a marine trophy.
Soft-paste porcelain decorated with an overglaze blue ground (bleu nouveau), painting in blue, green, yellow, pink, mauve, red, brown, and grey and black enamels, , and gilding. The vase stands on a low, moulded circular foot. The body is of an inverted pear-shape, contracting above the widest point into a narrow neck. The foliated, notched mouth divided into two and curls outwards and downwards to rejoin the body just above the widest point, thus forming two ear-shaped handles. The ground is bleu nouveau with on each side a reserve of inverted triangular shape with a tri-lobed top, framed by one plain and one tooled band of gilding. A wreath of gilt oak leaves hangs on a ribbon below each handle. Three bands of gilding encircle the foot, and one the junction of foot and body, and there are touches of gilding on the upper parts and edges of the handles. The panel on the front is painted in polychrome with a scene of three fishermen unloading or packing their catch on the shore with the rigging of a ship in the background, and two more sailors, one of whom is pointing to the right. The panel on the back is painted with a marine trophy incorporating a lobster or eel trap, two flutes, a compass, a net, shells, coral and pearls suspended from a pink bow at the top. The gold frame is tooled with panels of trellis alternating with plain panels
A pair with C.23A-1961.
History note: Acquired by the donor before October 1948
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Height: 19 cm
Width: 9.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
Production date:
AD 1769
: The vase bears the date letter for 1769
This is a vase à oreilles of the second size
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, pink, mauve, red, brown, and grey and black)
gold
Foot
Gilding
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Inscription present: interlaced L's enclosing a vertical line with a hook, probably an unfinished q
Accession number: C.23B-1961
Primary reference Number: 93564
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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