Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Vase à tête d'éléphant



I visited Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and I found three of these vases/candelabrums"Silly as a level I haven't yet understood silliness to be." I was stoked. Manufactured in Sèvres, sculpted by Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis in 1758 in soft paste porcelain, china painted by possibly Pierre-Louis-Philippe Armand or somebody else and gilded. Purchased by the Prince de Condé in December, 1758. The two other vases that completed the the collection are now in Louvre. Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (1736-1818), kept the garniture in his Parisian residence, the Palais de Bourbon. These too.