Work Record
Class [controlled]: • decorative arts  • ceramics  • European art
*Work Type [link]: • potpourri vase
*Title: Potpourri vase of Mme de Pompadour  Title Type: translated
Title: Pot-pourri "vaisseau"  Title Type: repository
*Creator Display: Sèvres porcelain manufactory (French, established 1740); design: Jean-Claude Duplessis, le père (French, ca. 1695-1774); painting: attributed to Charles-Nicolas Dodin (French, 1734-1803)
*Role [link]: manufactory   [link]: Sèvres porcelain manufactory
*Role [link]: designer   [link]: Duplessis, Jean-Claude
*Role [link]: painter  Qualifier: attributed to   [link]: Dodin, Charles-Nicolas
*Creation Date: ca. 1760  [controlled]: • Earliest: 1755  • Latest: 1765
*Subject [links]: • object (utilitarian)  • vase  • scent  • trees  • human figures  • tea ceremony  • Chinese genre scene
Style [link]: • Rococo  • Chinoiserie
Culture [link]: • French
*Current Location [link]: Musée du Louvre (Paris, France)  • ID: OA 10965
Creation Location [link]: Vincennes (Ile-de-France, France)
Former Location: Mme de Pompadour collection (Paris, France)
*Measurements: 37 x 35 cm (14 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches)
[controlled] Value: 37  Unit: cm Type: height  |  Value: 35  Unit: cm Type: width
*Materials and Techniques: soft paste porcelain, pink and green ground colors, polychrome enamel decoration and gilding
Material [links]: • soft paste porcelain  • enamel  • gold
Description: Pink potpourri vase with a painted genre scene of three Chinese men that was purchased for Mme de Pompadour, and was in her home at the time of her death.
Description Source [link]: Huyghe, René. Cent chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Nouvelles Éditions françaises, 1954. Musee du Louvre online. www.louvre.fr (accessed 26 June 2007)

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