Vase (vase hollandois nouveau ovale) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Sèvres Manufactory|Jean-Baptiste Noualhier
1763 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
This model of vase is made in two parts. The flared upper section would have contained earth for growing plants; the lower section held water. Small holes in the base of the upper section allowed the water to be absorbed. These two vases formed a garniture with the slightly earlier vase, "vase Boileau" (50.211.158a, b), and were owned by Prince Henry of Prussia.
- Artist
- Sèvres Manufactory|Jean-Baptiste Noualhier
- Date
- 1763
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain
- Culture
- French, Sèvres
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950
