Pair of Covered Vases
manufacturer Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710)
1749
- Medium
- porcelain mounted in gilt bronze
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 37.4 x 32.7 x 21 cm (14 3/4 x 12 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Germany, 18th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
One of these vases is dated 1749. They were perhaps part of a set of four covered vases that we know from documents were acquired by Mme. de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV in 1752.
