Vase (vase Boileau) (part of a set)

Sèvres Manufactory

1758 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This example is the earliest known vase of this model, and it sold for the price of 720 livres, which was roughly the annual salary of a skilled worker such as a cabinetmaker. This vase, combined with the two vases (50.211.156a, b, .157a, b), was acquired by Prince Henry of Prussia, the younger brother of Frederick the Great. He must have valued the garniture highly, for he kept it on a chest of drawers in his bedroom in his palace in Berlin.

Artist

Sèvres Manufactory

Date

1758

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