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Mennecy Pot-Pourri
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This item is no longer available
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Dates
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Circa 1750 - 1755
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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France
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Description
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French Porcelain Pot-Pourri and Pierced Cover.
The Mennecy porcelain pot-pourri jar and pierced cover has applied individual florettes (en forme de pelotes de neige) or schneeballblüten decoration (balls of snow) and a naturalistic moss-covered rocky base modelled with a branching tree to one side and a fox on the other. The cover similarly decorated and with three series of holes for pot-pourri in the shape of a flower-head. There is a single raised flower finial on the cover.
Dimensions: 17cm x 15 cm x 10 inches
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Literature
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Reference: French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, Linda H. Roth & Clare Le Corbeiller, no. 29, re schneeballblüten decoration.
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Provenance
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American Private Collection
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