Wine Cooler
1874 (made)
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Porcelain wine cooler, decorated in the pâte-sur-pâte technique, with lion masks and hunting subjects within panels sourrounded with ivy, all heavily embellished with gold, and with handles in the shape of Bacchanalian satyr heads with long curved horns.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain with pâte-sur-pâte decoration |
| Brief description | Wine cooler, porcelain, made by the Sèvres porcelain factory, France (Paris, Sèvres), 1874 |
| Physical description | Porcelain wine cooler, decorated in the pâte-sur-pâte technique, with lion masks and hunting subjects within panels sourrounded with ivy, all heavily embellished with gold, and with handles in the shape of Bacchanalian satyr heads with long curved horns. |
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| Gallery label | 'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900'
Neither the designer nor the artist are credited in the records of this gift by the French government. Nevertheless it is an extravagant example of the decorator's art and the designer's imagination. The Bacchanalian satyr heads with long curved horns as handles, lion masks and hunting subjects within panels surrounded with ivy, all heavily embellished with gold, constitute a pungent mixture of Renaissance motifs and realism.(1987-2006) |
| Credit line | Given by Mons. le Ministre de l'Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts |
| Object history | The records of this gift by the French government do not mention the designer nor the artist. |
| Production | Neither the designer nor the artist are credited in the records of this gift by the French government. Nevertheless it is an extravagant example of the decorator's art and the designer's imagination. |
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| Accession number | 463-1875 |
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| Record created | March 17, 2006 |
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