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Pair of glass coolers
(Seaux à verre)
(1720-1730)
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Peter and Ivanka Canet, 2011
- Gallery location
- 17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
The seau à verre was an eighteenth-century tableware form associated with the dessert service. It was filled with iced water and was intended for the cooling and rinsing of glasses. All wines were drunk chilled during this period, and larger seaux were produced for the cooling of wine bottles. The decoration on these seaux represents an amalgamation of Japanese kakiemon-style decorative motifs – including the banded hedge, the two quails and the three friends of winter (bamboo, plum blossom and pine) – which would never have been combined on a Japanese example, excepting those works that were made for the European market.
Artwork Details
(b) 10.8 × 14.0 × 12.2 cm
Purchased with funds donated by Peter and Ivanka Canet, 2011
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Level 2, NGV International