The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Potpourri Vase with Cover

Potpourri Vase with Cover

c. 1860–80
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

This vase was 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, this vase's design is taken from models produced by the St. Cloud factory in the 1750s after earlier Qing dynasty Chinese ceramics. However, the telltale sign that this vase is made by Samson and not St. Cloud is that the original would have been made from a soft-paste porcelain (fired at a lower temperature), while this example is made of hard-paste porcelain (fired at the highest temperature).
  • by 1996
    Levesque Père & Fils, Paris, France
    1996
    (Levesque Père & Fils, Paris, France, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)
    1996–2020
    Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH
    2020
    Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2020–
    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).
  • {{cite web|title=Potpourri Vase with Cover|url=false|author=|year=c. 1860–80|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.200.2