Vase

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

Additional Title(s)

Vase Paris de Milieu

ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS

Dateca. 1780

Mediumsoft-paste porcelain, overglaze dark blue ground color, polychrome enamel decoration, gilding

Dimensions18 1/8 x 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (46 x 24.1 x 18.4 cm.)

DescriptionThis is the central vase in a set of three urn-shaped vases produced by the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Sèvres, France.

InscribedIncised marks: pair of vases each marked twice (under the pedestal and inside the lip), IO caron; center vase marked (under the pedestal), 41; Duveen label: 28669 / 3

MarkingsIncised marks: pair of vases each marked twice (under the pedestal and inside the lip), IO caron; center vase marked (under the pedestal), 41; Duveen label: 28669 / 3

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

Status

On view

Label TextHenry Huntington acquired the Sèvres porcelain in this room shortly after Arabella Huntington’s death in 1924. The collection honors his wife’s passion for 18th-century French decorative arts. Innovative shapes, vibrant colors, rich gilding, and accomplished painting exemplify the products of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory at Sèvres, located just southwest of Paris. Many of these examples were designed by leading artists associated with the French court, such as the sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet and the porcelain painter Charles-Nicolas Dodin. The Huntington collection of Sèvres porcelain includes pieces representing both the fanciful and imaginative rococo style of the 1740s and ‘50s and the later more sober and precise neoclassical taste.

Object number27.139