Vase
Nast manufactory
(French, working in Paris, 1783–1835)
Marc Schoelcher manufactory
(French, working in Paris, 1798 – 1834)
about 1820
Object PlaceParis, France
Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels and gilding
DimensionsHeight x width: 28 3/4 x 12 in. (73 x 30.5 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Miss Clara Endicott Sears
Accession number1982.499
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
NOTE: When Clara Endicott Sears bequeathed this pair of French vases (1982.499-1982.500) to the MFA, she stated that her grandfather David Sears had bought them "from the possessions of the Empress Josephine of France, the wife of Napoleon the First, at the breaking up of her Chateau Malmaison." It is, however, much more likely that these are the "two large Porcelain vases to place in the niches, the price limited to 500 francs each" that David Sears ordered from Paris on December 10, 1820, for his Beacon Street home. See Wendy A. Cooper, Classical Taste in America: 1800-1840 (New York: Abbeville Press, 1993), pp. 41-43.
One of Pair/One of Pair
