id: 157031 accession number: 1993.175 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.175 updated: 2023-08-23 23:19:05.243000 Vase, c. 1800. Attributed to Pierre Philippe Thomire (French, 1751–1843). Bronze, partially gilt, marble base; diameter: 34 cm (13 3/8 in.); overall: 66.9 cm (26 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Buchanan in memory of Dorothy Tuckerman Draper 1993.175 title: Vase title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1800 creation date earliest: 1795 creation date latest: 1805 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Buchanan in memory of Dorothy Tuckerman Draper copyright: --- culture: France, late 18th-early 19th Century technique: bronze, partially gilt, marble base department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Pierre Philippe Thomire (French, 1751–1843) - artist --- measurements: Diameter: 34 cm (13 3/8 in.); Overall: 66.9 cm (26 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Object in Focus: Pierre Philippe Thomire, Vase opening date: 2002-05-14T00:00:00 Object in Focus: Pierre Philippe Thomire, Vase. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 14-July 14, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; May 14- July 14, 2002. "Object in Focus: Vase/ Pierre Philippe Thomire." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.175/1993.175_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.175/1993.175_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.175/1993.175_full.tif