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Flower vase (cuvette à fleurs Courteille) (one of a pair)

Manufactory Sèvres Manufactory French
Decorator Charles Nicolas Dodin French
1761
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 529

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Flower vase (cuvette à fleurs Courteille) (one of a pair)
  • Manufactory: Sèvres Manufactory (French, 1740–present)
  • Decorator: Charles Nicolas Dodin (French, Versailles 1734–1803 Sèvres)
  • Date: 1761
  • Culture: French, Sèvres
  • Medium: Soft-paste porcelain
  • Dimensions: with flowers: 15 in. (38.1 cm); vase: 6 × 10 in. (15.2 × 25.4 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
  • Credit Line: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
  • Object Number: 1974.356.591a, b
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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