MAKE A MEME View Large Image Porcelain Manufactory - One of a Pair of Potpourri Vases (Vases ovales Mercure) - Walters 48634 - Profile.jpg Unglazed medallions of the Latin god of commerce Mercury give these vases their name On the reverse are medallions of Medusa and ...
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Keywords: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory - One of a Pair of Potpourri Vases (Vases ovales Mercure) - Walters 48634 - Profile.jpg Unglazed medallions of the Latin god of commerce Mercury give these vases their name On the reverse are medallions of Medusa and Julia daughter of Emperor Titus based on ancient carved gems formerly in the collection of Baron Philippe von Stosch A similar pair of vases dated 1767 in the Royal Collection of England bear images of Louis XV and the Empress Marie-Therèse ca 1770 soft-paste porcelain gilt on bronze and marble base cm 41 5 accession number 48 634 17086 Lord Willpughby d'Eresby according to Hodgkins E M Hodgkins Collection no 53 date and mode of acquisition unknown A Seligmann Rey and Co New York Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1928 Special exhibition of Sèvres Porcelain Galleries of E M Hodgkins Paris 1909 Special Exhibition of the Works of Art of the Mediaeval Renaissance and More Recent Periods South Kensington Museum London 1862 place of origin Sèvres France Walters Art Museum license Sèvres porcelain in the Walters Art Museum Potpourri vases Stosch collection
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