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Group shot: 65.1817a-b, 65.1818a-b, 65.1819a-b

Flower Vase

Sèvres Manufactory (France)

Charles-Nicolas Dodin (French, 1734–1803)

1758

Medium/TechniqueSoft-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration

DimensionsOverall: 18.8 x 19.8 x 14.5cm (7 3/8 x 7 13/16 x 5 11/16in.)

Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

Accession number65.1818a-b

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ClassificationsCeramics

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Europe

Provenance1880, Paul Pavlovich Demidoff, 2nd Prince of San Donato (b. 1839 - d. 1885), Florence; March 15 - April 10, 1880, Demidoff sale, San Donato Palace, lot 472 [see note 1]. Wertheimer, London [see note 2]. By 1910, J. Pierpont Morgan (b. 1837 - d. 1914), New York [see note 3]; 1914, to his estate; March 22-25, 1944, Morgan estate sale, Parke Bernet, New York, lot 646, to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)

NOTES:
[1] In the same lot as MFA nos. 65.1817a-b and 65.1819a-b. [2] According to "Furniture and Objects of Art" (Morgan estate sale catalogue), Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 22-24, 1944, p. 170, lot 646. [3] J. P. Morgan inventory numbers P.M. 1736.A-1736.D in red enamel paint on bases of vases and stands.