Keywords: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory - Pair of Potpourri Vases - Walters 48590, 48591.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Manufacture nationale de Sèvres Designer This pair of scent vases which was intended to hold myrtle leaves is in a robin's egg blue found in other works from 1761 The Chinese scenes painted in the reserves are attributed to Charles Nicolas Dodin and are unused in that they may have been inspired by an Oriental prototype ca 1761 soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt cm 30 5 accession number 48 590 48 591 77458 Marquise de Pompadour Etienne-Francois de Choiseul-Stainville duc de Choiseul 1719-1785 date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale Paris February 18 1793 no 338 as recorded by Ennès 1997 pg 77 Collection of E Chappey Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Collection of E Chappey Sale Paris May 1907 no 1106 E M Hodgkins Collection Paris no 2 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 No visible marks Any marks have been covered by composition by which base was attached place of origin Sèvres France Walters Art Museum license Sèvres porcelain in the Walters Art Museum Potpourri vases Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis Charles-Nicolas Dodin |