Vase with cover (vase à gland) (one of a pair)
Sèvres Manufactory|Jean-Louis Morin|Charles Buteux
ca. 1775 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The two primary reserves of these vases (see also 58.75.76a, b) feature dockside scenes of sailors and merchants with barrels of cargo and the mast of a ship in the middle distance. This type of marine theme was popular at Sèvres and was a specialty of the painter Jean-Louis Morin (act. 1754–87). While neither of these vases bears the painter's mark of Morin, the decoration can be attributed to him on the basis of stylistic affinities to other works on which his mark appears.
- Artist
- Sèvres Manufactory|Jean-Louis Morin|Charles Buteux
- Date
- ca. 1775
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain
- Culture
- French, Sèvres
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
