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Vase (Vase à panneaux or à perles)
Vase with cover (Vase des âges) (one of a pair)
Flower vase (Cuvette à fleurs courteille)
Pair of vases (Vases cuir)
Vase (Vase hollandois nouveau ovale) (one of a set)
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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 529
The elephant head vases were among the most unusual and original of the vase models produced at Sèvres. Due to their cost of production, relatively few of these vases were made, and only twenty-two appear to have survived to the present day.
Marking: Script Lia[-] incised
Baron Henri de Rothschild ; Charles and Jayne Wrightsman (until 1983; to MMA)
