# Pair of Vases (Vases à Pied de Globe)

- By: Manufacture nationale de Sèvres (Designed by Charles Nicolas Dodin (French, 1734–1803))
- Date: 1769
- Medium: Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, gilding, and gilt-bronze mounts
- Classification: Ceramics
- 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.)
- Culture: Sèvres
- Credit line: The Antiquarian Society Centennial Gift
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/93991)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/361fd9c5-8331-05e8-7534-f384e59cc7eb/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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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.

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