The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 16, 2024
Pair of Potpourri Vases with Covers
c. 1860–80
Each: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in.)
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 likely made by the celebrated Parisian ceramics firm of Edmé Samson (1810-91). To cater to the resurgence in taste for 18th-century designs, the Samson firm specialized in making reproductions of rare 18th-century European porcelains, especially those from firms that had already copied Chinese porcelains. In this case, these vases are designs taken from models produced by the St. Cloud factory in the 1750s after earlier Qing dynasty Chinese ceramics. However, the telltale sign that these vases are made by Samson and not St. Cloud is that the originals would have been made from a soft-paste porcelain (fired at a lower temperature), while these examples are made of hard-paste porcelain (fired at the highest temperature).- by 1996Levesque Père & Fils, Paris, France1996(Levesque Père & Fils, Paris, France, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)1996–2020Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH2020Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art2020–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).No exhibition history.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.200