id: 149645 accession number: 1979.40 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.40 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:11.848000 Vase with Portrait of President MacMahon, c. 1872–1874. Alfred-Thompson Gobert (French, 1822–1894), Constantin Renard (French), Emile-Bernard Rejoux (French, 1832-), Jean-Denis Larue (French, 1884), Jules Archelais (French, 1865–1902). Porcelain with gilt bronze mounts; overall: 89.2 x 43.8 cm (35 1/8 x 17 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection 1979.40 title: Vase with Portrait of President MacMahon title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1872–1874 creation date earliest: 1866 creation date latest: 1879 current location: creditline: The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: porcelain with gilt bronze mounts department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Alfred-Thompson Gobert (French, 1822–1894) - decorated by * Constantin Renard (French) - thrower * Emile-Bernard Rejoux (French, 1832-) - gilded by * Jean-Denis Larue (French, 1884) - sculptor * Jules Archelais (French, 1865–1902) - decorated by --- measurements: Overall: 89.2 x 43.8 cm (35 1/8 x 17 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: incised gilded letters located directly below portrait relief: "MACMAHON"; incised gilded letters located in complex design of ribbons above portrait: "AMOR PATRIA," and below: "SAPIENTIA," "FORTITUDO"; on primary face, beneath the ornamental surround of MacMahon's portrait: "Gob. R/Sèvres"; on reverse, incised gilt numerals located within ornamental ribbon: "1873"; incised in the porcelain inside neck: "CR 72 6" and beneath it "CR 72 9"; incised letters beneath the vase: "NL"; a small gilt-metal bucket is installed within the neck of the MacMahon Vase, on its bottom are scratched the letters: "ABF"; printed in green inside the neck and beneath the vase: "s 74"; printed in red on the lip: a circular stamp with the words "Decore a Sèvres 74" surrounding the initials "RF" [Repbulique Français]. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1979 opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). title: The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-06-20T04:00:00 The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE President MacMahon, Paris; (his descendants, United States?). [Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York]. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Marie Edmé Patrice Maurice de MacMahon (1808-1893), whose portrait appears on this vase, was its first owner. He was a successful military leader who was given the titles of Duke of Magenta and Marshall of France by Napoleon III, but after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and the end of the Second Empire, MacMahon was elected second President of the Third Republic of France. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection is on View in Year in Review Exhibition,” February 7, 1980, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr2737 Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 33, p. 72; Mentioned: p. 59 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667 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. 70-71, no. 75 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.40/1979.40_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.40/1979.40_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.40/1979.40_full.tif