Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
Mounted Vase

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Mounted Vase
DatePorcelain c. 1740, ormolu c. 1755–1760
MediumHard-paste porcelain and gilt-bronze
DimensionsOverall: 16 1/4 × 11 3/4 × 6 3/4 in. (41.3 × 29.8 × 17.1 cm)
Credit LineHorace Wood Brock Collection, museum purchase funded by the Rienzi Society
Object number2021.371
Current Location
Rienzi
Drawing Room
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Department
Rienzi
ProvenanceAlmost certainly the vase mentioned in the hôtel particulier of Nicolas Beaujon, banquier de la Cour, now the Palais de l'Elysée in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré
in 1787; [the sale of Nicolas Beaujon's collection, Paris, 25 April 1787 and the following days, lot 345]; [Anonymous sale, Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, Palais Galliera, 20 June 1968, lot 2]; Djahanguir Riahi; [Christie's New York, 2 November 2000, lot 16 ($105,000)]; Horace Wood Brock, 2000; MFAH, 2021

Exhibition HistorySplendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, January 22–May 17, 2009

On view 2010—2015 at the Frick Collection


Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Label on bottom: 07866548
Meissen crossed swords mark

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Etui
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c. 1760
Hard-paste porcelain, copper-gilt
94.868
Set of jars and vases
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c. 1750
Hard-paste porcelain
84.437.1-.5
Mounted Potpourri Vase and Cover
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Porcelain, c.1763–70; Gilt-bronze, c. 1785
Soft-paste porcelain, gilt-bronze and marble
2021.355.A-.C
Figure of Columbine
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c. 1760
Hard-paste porcelain
96.1627
Twelve Plates
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c. 1761
Hard-paste porcelain
2004.1370.20-.31
Fourteen Bowls
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c. 1761
Hard-paste porcelain
2004.1370.6-.19
Four Serving Platters
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c. 1761
Hard-paste porcelain
2004.1370.2-.5
Figure of a Swan
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c. 1740–1745
Hard-paste porcelain
2001.87
Plate (from the Swan Service)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c. 1737–1741
Hard-paste porcelain
94.950
Miniature Swan
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
second half of the 18th century
Hard-paste porcelain
94.946.6
Cup, part of cup and saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c. 1755
Hard-paste porcelain
94.945.1
Cup, part of cup and saucer
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c. 1755
Hard-paste porcelain
94.945.3