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| Keywords: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory - Vase with Landscape Scenes - Walters 481799 - Profile.jpg On the front appears the royal ch teau and park at Fontainebleau The building began as a royal hunting lodge in the early 12th century but was substantially rebuilt over time particularly at the beginning of the 17th century In the background is the Fontainebleau forest a favorite location for landscape painters On the reverse is a view of the interior of the forest During the Second Empire 1852-1870 the state-sponsored porcelain factory that had been founded at Sèvres in the mid 18th century continued to determine stylistic trends and technical innovations for the French ceramic industry A number of the artists whom it employed as decorators eventually became major landscape painters This monumental vase with its unusual turquoise background color described as vert clair clear green in the factory records was exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle and sold to William T Walters for 5 300 French francs 1 100 a remarkable sum at the time 1866 porcelain with gilded bronze cm 96 5 accession number 48 1799 9866 Sale offered Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres Decembre 1866 MNS Archives Régistre Vv7 folio 51 no 86 William T Walters Baltimore May 24 1873 by purchase MNS Archives Régistre Vz 13 folio 51 verso Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Found 5 West Mt Vernon Place May 1941 Acquired by William T Walters 1873 Before Monet Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters Highlights from The Walters Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 place of origin Sèvres France Walters Art Museum license Sèvres porcelain in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
