Flower Vase (cuvette Mahon)

The design of this vase, reminiscent of a boat, carries political significance and commemorates the French conquest of the port city of Mahon on Minorca at the beginning of the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). The flowing, rounded design is the creation of Jean Claude Duplessis, a talented goldsmith and sculptor who had been the artistic director at the porcelain manufactory since 1748.

  • Artwork typejardinière
  • Object numberBK-17512
  • Dimensionsheight 18 cm x width 27 cm x length 16 cm, width 20 cm x depth 10.3 cm
  • Physical characteristicsbeschilderd en verguld porselein (pâte tendre)

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Flower Vase (cuvette Mahon)

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-17512

  • Description

    Ovale jardiniere van veelkleurig beschilderd porselein, met een blauwgroene fond. De jardiniere heeft een geschulpte rand en naar binnen gebogen korte zijden. De vier poten hebben de vorm van bladeren in rocaille-vorm en zijn deels verguld. Op beide lange zijden is een medaillon geschilderd een met een Teniers-scene: vier mannen en een vrouw rond een tafel voor een huis en in de ander bloemen en vruchten.

Creation

  • Creation

    • porcelain company , Sèvres
    • designer: Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis, Sèvres
    • after print by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas
    • after painting by David Teniers (II)

  • Dating

    c. 1761

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    beschilderd en verguld porselein (pâte tendre)

  • Dimensions

    • height 18 cm x width 27 cm x length 16 cm
    • width 20 cm x depth 10.3 cm

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  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; sale, the Rt. Hon. Lord Brownlow (Belton House, Grantham), London (Christie’s), 14 March 1929, no. 58, £220 10 s, to the dealer Duveen;{Copy RMA.} from whom, $12,500, to Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1929;{GRI, Digital Collections, Duveen Brothers records, Series II.I, Collectors’ files: Mannheimer, F., ca. 1924-1948, image 180, probably an invoice to Dr Fritz Mannheimer, d.d. 9 November 1929, no. 29487 and image 171, a Memorandum of Shipment to Dr Fritz Mannheimer, d.d. 12 December 1929.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

  • Remarks

    Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

  • Barry Shifman, 'Eighteenth-century Sèvres porcelain : two rare cuvettes Mahon', Apollo 121 (1985), p. 28.

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