Pair of Vases (Vases à Pied de Globe)
Medium
Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, gilding, and gilt-bronze mounts
Dimensions
1977.220a-b: 35.9 × 13 × 11.1 cm (14 1/8 × 5 1/8 × 4 3/8 in.) 1977.221a-b: 35.2 × 12.9 × 11.1 cm (13 15/16 × 5 1/16 × 4 3/8 in.)
Classification
vase
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
93991
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
These rare urn-shaped Neoclassical vases were decorated by Charles-Nicolas Dodin, one of the major figure painters at Sèvres. An extremely versatile painter, he created chinoiseries (fanciful depictions of Chinese life), scenes after the Dutch painter David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690), mythological images, and pastoral subjects drawn from works by and after the French artist François Boucher (1703–1770). Dodin’s colors are often intensely saturated and luminous.
About the Artist
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres · 1763–1800
The Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, a premier French porcelain factory, flourished from 1763 to 1800 as the royal powerhouse of European ceramics, producing opulent soft- and hard-paste porcelain under the patronage of Louis XV and XVI. Originally founded in Vincennes in 1740 to rival Meissen and Chantilly, it relocated to Sèvres in 1756 and was fully acquired by the Crown in 1759, becoming the M...