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Pot-pourri
(c. 1765)
- Medium
- porcelain (soft paste)
- Measurements
- (a-b) 20.1 × 13.8 × 16.0 cm (overall)
- Place/s of Execution
- Tournai, Flanders
- Accession Number
- 2010.66.a-b
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Wynne Morris Collection. Gift of Peter Wynne Morris, 2010
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Gallery 18
Level 3, NGV Australia - About this work
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The Tournai factory produced ornamental wares of extremely high quality in the French taste. At their best, these porcelains are comparable to the products of the royal factories of Vincennes and Sèvres and many Tournai models were copied directly from examples produced at these factories. This pot-pourri may be compared with very similar models produced at St Cloud, Chantilly, Mennecy and Vincennes. The putto figure is closely related to a figure representing an allegory of water from a series of ten allegorical enfants Boucher by the Tournai factory and is accompaied by an ever faithful hound.