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Pair of Bottle Coolers (seaux à rafraîchir)

c. 1740
manufacturer

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
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The four figures on horseback are derived from prints French designer Jean Antoine Fraisse modeled after textiles, lacquers, and porcelains found in the collection of Louis-Henri, duke of Bourbon.

Description

These bottle coolers combine a traditionally European form based on silver models with designs and compositions that emulate Chinese and Japanese porcelain. Towering over the figures the luxuriant, vividly colored vegetation is characteristic of chinoiserie, imitations of East Asian decoration and design common in 18th-century European decorative arts. Distorted by the European imagination, these imitations were not accurate representations of the cultures from which they drew inspiration.
Pair of Bottle Coolers (seaux à rafraîchir)

Pair of Bottle Coolers (seaux à rafraîchir)

c. 1740

Villeroy Factory, Mennecy- Villeroy Factory

(French)
France, Villeroy, 18th century

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