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Oct 22, 2012

Pair of Bottle Coolers (seaux à rafraîchir)

c. 1740

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manufacturer

Villeroy Factory

manufacturer

Mennecy- Villeroy Factory

(French)

France, Villeroy, 18th century

Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

Overall: 15.7 x 21.9 x 18.8 cm (6 3/16 x 8 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1947.60

Location

216A French and German

Artist biography

Mennecy- Villeroy Factory

Duc de Villeroy was the sponsor of this factory. Established c. 1749

Citations

Darblay, Ayme. Villeroy: son passé, sa fabrique de porcelaine, son état actuel. Paris: Picard, 1901. p. 88, pl. 29

Foote, Helen S. "French Soft-Paste Porcelain." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34 (December 1947): 249-250. p. 250

Foote, Helen S. "Soft-Paste Porcelain in France." Art Quarterly XI (Autumn 1948) p. 340, 344; figs. 11, 12

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 134 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 134 archive.org

Jedding, Hermann. Europäisches Porzellan. München: Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1971. p. 256; no. 786

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 176 archive.org

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned: p, 59; Reproduced: p. 59, fig. 61 and colorplate 61 after p. 54

Duchon, Nicole. La Manufacture de porcelaine de Mennecy Villeroy. Le Mée-sur-Seine: Editions Amatteis, 1988. p. 22

Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1991. p. 108

Exhibition history

Cathay Invoked: Chinoiserie, A Celestial Empire in the West. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (June 10-July 31, 1966).

Chinoiserie: The Chinese Influence. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (October 5-December 2, 1979).

The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982).

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