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Object NameSet (Garniture) of Five Vases

Manufacturerprobably La Manufacture des cristaux du Creusot

Made FromLead Glass, Gilt-Bronze, Marble

Dateabout 1786-1794

TechniqueBlown, cut, assembled

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number2017.3.8

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Interpretive Notes

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This set includes a potpourri vase for dried and perfumed flowers (center) and, on either side, a candleholder and a vase for cut flowers. The gilded bronze mounts conform to the latest Paris fashions around the time of the French revolution.

Place Made

France, probably Burgundy (glass); France, probably Paris (mounts and assembly)

Physical DescriptionSet (Garniture) of Five Vases. Five cobalt blue vases with facet cut bodies. They comprise a central, straight-sided pot pourri vase, wider at the neck than at the foot, with a glass and gilt-bronze cover over a fretwork frieze encircled by a gilt-bronze laurel wreath; a pair of "cassolettes formant bougeoirs" (small, ovoid pot pourri vases with a gilt-bronze fretwork frieze around the rim and lids of the same, which invert to form candle holders) and two taller, bottle-shaped vases with long, flaring necks of gilt-bronze. All five vases stand on circular, white marble bases encircled with beads, and are supported on console legs with either scroll or ram’s hoof feet. The mounts are adorned with swags of beads, and the handles formed of winged female busts or female bacchantes. The three central pot pourri vases have gilt-bronze fretwork friezes and their covers have gilt-bronze knops of stylized acanthus leaves.
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