Vase with cover (vase urne antique)

Sèvres Manufactory|Jean-Claude Duplessis|Charles Nicolas Dodin

ca. 1755–57 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

It is known from the factory sales records that only two vases of this form with this type of decoration were sold between 1755–57. Each sold for the impressive sum of 960 livres; one was purchased by Madame de Pompadour and the other by Count Moltke, a friend and court official to the Danish king, Frederik V.

Artist

Sèvres Manufactory|Jean-Claude Duplessis|Charles Nicolas Dodin

Date

ca. 1755–57

Medium

Soft-paste porcelain

Culture

French, Sèvres

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958