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Vase
The collection record classifies this work as metalwork. It is dated c. 1800. Recorded culture or place: France, late 18th-early 19th Century.
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- Museum title
- Vase
- Date
- c. 1800
- Culture / origin
- France, late 18th-early 19th Century
- Materials and technique
- bronze, partially gilt, marble base
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 34 cm (13 3/8 in.); Overall: 66.9 cm (26 5/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Pierre Philippe Thomire (French, 1751–1843)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1993.175
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
In 1798, a large quantity of French furnishings was acquired for the Michael Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. Some of these pieces survive in museums like the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. This institution recently staged an exhibition of such French pieces by and attributed to Thomire. Among the objects shown was a bronze vase virtually identical in design to this piece. The body of this vase is decorated with two small reliefs showing male and female centaurs with putti riding on their backs. These reliefs also occur on silver wine coolers produced by the Odiot firm, a major Parisian silversmith under Napoleon's empire. The Odiot firm still owns models of these reliefs that, according to tradition, had been given to Jean-Baptiste Claude Odiot by Thomire.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Buchanan in memory of Dorothy Tuckerman Draper · CC0
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