Perfume vase (one of a pair)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

ca. 1761 · Soft-paste porcelain, burnished gold ground · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The scenes depict: (left) three nymphs after the painting La Source by Francois Boucher (1703–1770); and (right) Jupiter disguised as Diana with Diana's nymph Callisto, after an engraving by Rene Galliard (1719–1790) of a painting of 1759 by Boucher.

Artist

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Date

ca. 1761

Medium

Soft-paste porcelain, burnished gold ground

Culture

British, Chelsea

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964