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Perfume Case (Etui flaconnier)
The collection record classifies this work as cosmetic objects. It is dated c. 1780. Recorded culture or place: France.
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- Museum title
- Perfume Case (Etui flaconnier)
- Date
- c. 1780
- Culture / origin
- France
- Materials and technique
- painted wood with gilt metal mounts, tortoiseshell
- Dimensions
- Overall: 12.6 x 2.6 cm (4 15/16 x 1 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1916.324
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Resting inside this case is a small octagonal crystal flask that would have held perfume. The painted miniatures are decorated with vernis martin, a popular varnish that imitated East Asian true lacquer. These scenes of rural merriment were often miniature reproductions of well-respected artists of the period. The depiction of three children and a dog on the lower portion of the case was drawn from Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Happy Family (L’heureuse fécondité) (1777).
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade · CC0
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