The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Vase for a Garniture Set
1736–1770
Overall: 34.4 x 22 x 15.2 cm (13 9/16 x 8 11/16 x 6 in.)
Gift of Horace Wood Brock 2020.421.2
Location: 216B French and German
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A set of vases and clock, connected visually by the use of the same materials, often adorned a mantlepiece or the top of a large piece of furniture, such as a commode or console, within a room.Description
The fascination with Chinese porcelain among aristocratic circles increased during the reign of Louis XV. In reaction to the perceived excesses of elaborate naturalistic ornament of the 1750s, mount makers increasingly turned to neoclassical designs, known as Goût Grec (Greek taste) in the 1760s and 1770s. These beautifully chased gilt-bronze mounts feature classical Greco-Roman motifs such as lion masks, acanthus and laurel leaves, and pilasters.- 2020Horace Wood Brock, Gloucester, MA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art2020-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Clifford Ackley, et al. Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Art and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009. Reproduced: cover ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.orgClifford Ackley, et al. Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Art and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009. Reproduced: Cover. ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org
- Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection. Museum of Fine Arts Boston (January 22–May 17, 2009).Previously exhibited at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Frick Collection, New York.
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