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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Pot-Pourri Vase

ca. 1790-1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The body with handles formes as addorsed swans and with calyx of bullrushes; pierced domed cover with finial formed as doves surmounting quiver and torch; on rectangular stepped base with swags and mouldings


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Tureen Body
  • Tureen Cover
  • Tureen Stand
Materials and techniques
Creamware (faïence fine), with moulded decoration
Brief description
Pot-pourri vase with cover and stand, made at Pierre-Joseph Boch's pottery factory, Septfontaines, about 1790-1800
Physical description
The body with handles formes as addorsed swans and with calyx of bullrushes; pierced domed cover with finial formed as doves surmounting quiver and torch; on rectangular stepped base with swags and mouldings
Marks and inscriptions
'B.L.' (for Boch, Luxembourg) above workmen's mark '12' impressed
Credit line
Given anonymously
Object history
Acquisition type: Gift
Production
Acquired as Luxembourg, Boch, late 18th century and described as a tureen.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • For a similar unmarked pot pourri vase attributed to Douai and dated to c. 1781-1820, see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, La Faïence fine francaise, 1750-1867, Paris, 1995, p. 130.
  • For another closer to the V&A piece attributed to Septfontaines see Musée de Sevres, Villeroy & Boch, exh. cat. 1985, cat. 23, where dated to 1790-1800.
Collection
Accession number
C.20 to B-1959

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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