Vase with cover (vase à bandes) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory|Charles Nicolas Dodin|Henry-Martin Prévost|Louis Crépy|Antoine Watteau
ca. 1770–75 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The bucolic scenes on the front of these vases (see also 58.75.68a, b) are after compositions by the French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). Engraved together on one copper plate by Louis Crépy in 1729, L'heureux moment (the happy moment) and Le berger content (the content shepherd) were, as a result, printed on the same sheet of paper and often used as a pair. [Jeffrey H. Munger, 2006]
- Artist
- Sèvres Manufactory|Charles Nicolas Dodin|Henry-Martin Prévost|Louis Crépy|Antoine Watteau
- Date
- ca. 1770–75
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain
- Culture
- French, Sèvres
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
