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Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Pair of glass coolers (Seaux à verre) (1720-1730)
porcelain (soft-paste)
(a) 10.1 × 14.2 × 12.1 cm
(b) 10.8 × 14.0 × 12.2 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Peter and Ivanka Canet, 2011
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Pair of glass coolers
(Seaux à verre)
(1720-1730)
Medium
porcelain (soft-paste)
Measurements
(a) 10.1 × 14.2 × 12.1 cm
(b) 10.8 × 14.0 × 12.2 cm
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
Accession Number
2011.293.a-b
Department
International Decorative Arts
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