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Perfume Burner

Manufacturer (French, 1725 - 1789)
CultureFrench
OriginChantilly, Oise, France
PeriodLouis XV (1715-1744)
Datec.1740-1745
MediumSoft-paste porcelain with tin-opacified lead glaze, overglaze enamels, gilding; gilt-bronze
DimensionsOverall (G83.1.1069.1-2): 22.9 x 20.4 cm (9 x 8 1/16 in.)
MarkingsNone
DescriptionA Chantilly figure of a Magot seated in an open robe. It is painted with shaped panels of flowers in Kakiemon colours on a pale manganese ground, seated with a terrestrial globe between his legs with ormolu cover. There is scrolling foliage and porcelain flowerheads. The rim to the bowl at the Equator is painted with signs of the zodiac, and it is on rocky grasswork and ormolu base.
Credit LineGift of George and Helen Gardiner
Object numberG83.1.1069.1-2
Classifications
European Ceramics
Sub-classification
French Porcelain
Status
On view
Photographer: Toni Hafkenscheid
Artist / Maker: Shary Boyle
2018
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Photographer: Toni Hafkenscheid
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Harlequin and Columbine in ormolu mounted candalabra
Artist / Maker: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c.1740-1745
Object number: G83.1.940.1-4
Photographer: Toni Hafkenscheid
Artist / Maker: Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory
c.1730-1740
Object number: G07.18.7.1a-c-2a-c
Pagoda Figure for Burning Perfume
Artist / Maker: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c.1715-1725, decorated in Augsburg, c.1725
Object number: G83.1.721
Vase
Artist / Maker: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
18th Century
Object number: G83.1.677
Mockery of Age
Artist / Maker: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c.1740-1741; decorated in the nineteenth or twentieth century
Object number: G83.1.942
Clock with Harlequin with Bagpipes
Artist / Maker: Johann Joachim Kändler
c.1745-1752
Object number: G83.1.950
Photographer: Toni Hafkenscheid
Artist / Maker: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c.1731; Mount made in Paris, 1731
Object number: G04.18.5
Garniture of Vases (Vases “têtes de morues” et vase “chinois nouvelle forme”)
Artist / Maker: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
1780
Object number: G83.1.1074.1,.2.-3
Harlequin with Bagpipes
Artist / Maker: Johann Joachim Kändler
c.1745-1750
Object number: G83.1.936
'Baby-face' Figure
Artist / Maker: Unknown Artist
1100-800 BCE
Object number: G83.1.9