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Manufactory Vincennes Manufactory French
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The form of this ewer and basin is based on contemporary French silver examples. Silver, the more expensive medium, frequently provided the model for the forms of French porcelain in the eighteenth century.
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Title: Ewer and basin (pot à la Romaine uni et jatte ovale)
Manufactory:
Vincennes Manufactory (French, ca. 1740–1756)
Date: 1754–55
Culture: French, Vincennes
Medium: Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions:
Height (ewer .177): 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm);
Overall (basin .178): 14 3/8 × 10 1/8 in. (36.5 × 25.7 cm)
Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
Credit Line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950
Object Number: 50.211.177, .178
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