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Flower Vase
Saint-Porchaire (French)
c. 1520–40
- Medium
- lead-glazed white-paste earthenware, molded and inlaid slip decoration
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Diameter of top: 14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.); Diameter of base: 45.7 x 17.2 cm (18 x 6 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- 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
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Made as two separate elements, this extremely rare example of Saint-Porchaire ware may have been conceived primarily as a tour de force of decorative art.
