Vase (cuvette a fleurs unies)
Former TitleSemi-lunar Jardiniere
Artist
André-Vincent Vieillard
(French, 1717 - 1790)
Manufacturer
Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory
(French, 1739 - 1756)
Date1755
MediumSoft-paste porcelain, bleu lapis ground; enamelled and gilded
DimensionsOverall: 4 3/4 × 10 1/4 × 5 1/2 inches (12.07 × 26.04 × 13.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust (by exchange)
Object number76-2
Markingson bottom: blue potter's mark
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DescriptionWhite, soft paste porcelain, exterior body painted with cobalt blue ground stippled with gold dots. Reserve panels on front and back of rococo shape and surrounded by wreath of raised flowers entirely gilded. Landscape with cupids on front panel, landscape with house and two figures on back, both in brilliantly colored overglazes, Handles are white with gold trim.Exhibition HistoryLuxury and Passion: Inventing French Porcelain, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 13 2022–August 12 2024, no cat.
Only fourteen examples of this flower vase exist. The Nelson-Atkins’s was one of the first made and was both a prototype and a royal thank-you gift. King Louis XV sent it to the marquise de Courteille, wife of the courtier who looked after his financial interests in Vincennes.
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F98-32/217
Giovanni Giardini
18th century
2020.18
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