About This Artwork
Elephant Candelabrum Vase (Vase à Tête d'Eléphant)1757/58
Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding
39.2 cm (15 7/16 in.)
Marks: interlaced L's enclosing letter E with dots above and below; "482" in red paint overglaze. Incised on body on base: MLi
Joseph Maier and Arthur Lewis Liebman Memorial: Gift of Kenneth J. Maier, M.D., 1986.3446
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
"Louis XV Mme Pompadour", Memphis, 3/10/1990 - 4/15/1990;
New York, 5/2/1990 - 6/15/1990
AIC, "Eighteenth-Century French Vincennes-Sèvres Porcelain", 5/18/1995 - 3/30/1997
Publication History
Publication:
Charles Davis, (illus.), A DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKS OF ART FORMING THE COLLECTION OF ALFRED DE ROTHSCHILD, vol. II: SÈVRES CHINA, FURNITURE, METAK WORK AND OBJECTS DE VITRINE, 1884, no. 82.
Carl Christian Dauterman, (with illus.), THE WRIGHTSMAN COLLECTION, vol. IV: PORCELAIN, Metropolitan Museum, pp. 206-207, no.83.
Sotheby'S, NOVEMBER 17, 1984 AUCTION, New York, lot 70, illu.
Notes and General bibliography:
-these vases were made in pairs or as part of a garniture, and in three different size groups. Two models for this vase still exist.
Similar Examples see:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, Dauterman, C.C., THE WRIGHTSMAN COLLECTION, vol. 4, PORCELAIN, Nos. 80, 81, 82 a & b.
Garnier, Edouard, SOFT PORCELAIN OF SÈVRES, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891, plate 20. (set of five vases, Rothschilds Coll.)
Savage, George, SEVENTEENTH & EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH PORCELAIN, London: Barrie and Rockliff, plate 53a. (Wallace Coll.) (1 vase)
Burnet, Marcelle and Preaud, Tamara, SÈVRES, DES ORIGINES A NOS JOURS, Paris: Societe des Francaise du Livre, 1978, plate XIV, p.56-57.(Waddeson Manor, coll. Rothschild) (1 vase)
DECORATIVE ART FROM THE SAMUEL H. KRESS COLLECTION AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Phaidon Press for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, n.d., Cat. 36a-b, Figs. 145-146, p.202. (Met) (one pair of vases)
Eriksen, Svend, SÈVRES PORCELAIN, THE JAMES A. DE ROTHSCHILD COLLECTION AT WADDESON MANOR, Office du Livre, 1968, pp.70-2, No. 21; p.126, No. 43; P.150, No. 53. (No. 21 is cited in Brunet & Preaud, No. 43 is a single and No. 53 a pair)
Walters Art Gallery, 48.1796, with an oriental scene (a single)
Similar types by other porcelain makers:
For Meissen see:
Ruckert, Rainer, ed., MEISSENER PORZELLAN 1710-1810, Munich: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, exhibition catalogue, Hirmer Verlag, n.d.