![An image of Vase [one of pair] by Sèvres](http://media1.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection_images/Alpha/L2012.189%23%23S.jpg)
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Sèvres
(France 1756– )
- Title
- Vase [one of pair]
- Year
- 1777
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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18.6 x 15.5 x 11.3 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.189
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The vase shape was introduced before 1756. A slightly more elaborate version introduced in 1757 was known as a ‘vase Marmet’. It is unusual to find a pair of vases made one of soft-paste, the other of hard-paste porcelain. The production of such a pair would have presented considerable difficulties, the soft- and hard-paste workshops being kept entirely separate.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 106 (colour illus.). cat.no. 143
