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Elephant Candelabrum Vase (Vase à Tête d'Eléphant)
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres · 1757–58
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Memphis, TN, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, <em>Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour: A Love Affair with Style</em>, March 11, 1990–April 15, 1990; New York, Rosenberg & Stiebel, May 3, 1990–June 15, 1990.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Eighteenth-Century French Vincennes-Sèvres Porcelain</em>, May 18, 1995–March 30, 1997.
Literature
Published references
- Charles Davis, <em>A Description of the Works of Art Forming the Collection of Alfred de Rothschild</em>, Vol. 2, <em>Sèvres China, Furniture, Metal Work and Objects de Vitrine</em> (London: 1884), no. 82.
- Carl Christian Dauterman, <em>The Wrightsman Collection</em>, vol. 4, <em>Porcelain</em> (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society for the Metropolitan Museum of Art), 206–07, no. 83.
- Sotheby's, New York, <em>Important French Furniture, Continental Ceramics and Carpets</em>, sale cat. (Sotheby's, New York, November 17, 1984), lot 70 (ill.).
- Ian Wardropper and Lynn Springer Roberts, <em>European Decorative Arts in the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1991), 77, 79 (ill.).
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