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Wall light (one of a pair)

Manufactory Porcelain flowers by Vincennes Manufactory French
birds 1662–1722, flowers and mounts ca. 1750
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 539
The combination of porcelain made in both France and China with French gilt bronze would have made these wall lights very fashionable in the mid-eighteenth century.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Wall light (one of a pair)
  • Manufactory: Porcelain flowers by Vincennes Manufactory (French, ca. 1740–1756)
  • Date: birds 1662–1722, flowers and mounts ca. 1750
  • Culture: French, Vincennes and Chinese
  • Medium: Glazed biscuit Chinese porcelain parrots of K'ang Hsi period; soft-paste Vincennes porcelain flowers; 19th century hard-paste flowers; gilt bronze
  • Dimensions: Height: 23 in. (58.4 cm)
  • Classification: Metalwork-Gilt Bronze
  • Credit Line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
  • Object Number: 1982.60.64
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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