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Vase

Maker Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (French, active from 1756 to the present)

Makerpossibly Jean-Baptiste-Etienne Genest (French, 1730 - 1789)

Makerpossibly Jean-Louis Morin (French, 1732 - 1787, active 1754 - 1787)

Additional Title(s)

Vase à Têtes de Bouc

ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS

Dateca. 1762

Mediumsoft-paste porcelain, overglaze pink, blue, and carmine ground colors, polychrome enamel decoration, gilding

Dimensions18 3/4 x 16 x 10 in. (47.6 x 40.6 x 25.4 cm.)

DescriptionLarge ornamental vase in soft-paste porcelain with a massive architectural base and molded goats’ heads at the ends; one of the earliest models of this form designed at Sèvres manufactory in the 1760s.

InscribedDuveen label: 28275 / 3 3

MarkingsDuveen label: 28275 / 3

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. The Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection.

Status

On view

Label TextThese three vases (27.31-27.32 and 27.37) are among the largest and most extravagant ever produced by the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. The central vase (27.37) with goat-head handles is painted with a battle scene; the side vases (see object numbers 27.31-27.32), in the form of fortified towers, bear military trophies, garlands, and wreaths. These details suggest that the set was made for a military hero; perhaps, a veteran of the Seven Year’s War, which ended in 1763.

Object number27.37