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Pair of Potpourri Vases with Covers

Pair of Potpourri Vases with Covers

c. 1740–60
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Potpourri vases always have holes in the top to let the scent of dried spices and flowers contained within freshen the air around them.

Description

These vases were created to contain potpourri, a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices emitting ambient fragrance. This specific function offered a particularly fertile ground for the development of French porcelain, as manufactories experimented with forms, surface ornamentations, and placement of perforations.
  • Dallot-Naudin, Yvonne, and Alain Jacob. Porcelaines tendres françaises: Rouen, L. Poterat, St-Cloud, Mennecy, Chantilly, Bourg la Reine, Vincennes. Paris: ABC Collection, 1983. p.100-101
    Dupont, Patrick. Porcelaines franc̦aises aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Paris: Les Éditions de l'Illustration, 1987. p. 50, no. 3
    Rondot, Bertrand. Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory, Ca. 1690-1766. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. p. 223, no. 169; p. 292
  • Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
    Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).
  • {{cite web|title=Pair of Potpourri Vases with Covers|url=false|author=Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory|year=c. 1740–60|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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