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"tombstone": "Pair of Covered Vases, 1749. Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710). Porcelain mounted in gilt bronze; overall: 37.4 x 32.7 x 21 cm (14 3/4 x 12 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1944.229",
"current_location": "216B French and German",
"title": "Pair of Covered Vases",
"creation_date": "1749",
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"gender unknown"
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"department": "Decorative Art and Design",
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"type": "Ceramic",
"measurements": "Overall: 37.4 x 32.7 x 21 cm (14 3/4 x 12 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.)",
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"description": "formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan collection; (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York).",
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"description": "One of these vases is dated 1749. They were perhaps part of a set of four covered vases that we know from documents were acquired by Mme. de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV in 1752.",
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"citation": "Foote, Helen. \"Early French and German Porcelain Formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 9 (November 1944): 160-162.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 162; Reproduced: p. 165",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 310",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n61"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 138",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n162"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 138",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n162"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 181",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n201"
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 64, no. 67",
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}
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"biography": "the first and for half a century the best in Europe. It set a high standard which was emulated everywhere, even in China. Founded in 1710 as the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufacture by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, at Meissen, near Dresden.",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:22:15.685000"
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