带烛台的花瓶（一对） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	带烛台的花瓶（一对）
品名（英）	Potpourri vase with candleholders (pot-pourri à bobêche) (one of a pair)
入馆年号	1958年，58.75.95
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Sèvres Manufactory【1740 至现在】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1760
创作地区
分类	陶瓷-瓷器（Ceramics-Porcelain）
尺寸	整体 (confirmed): 9 1/2 x 6 1/16 x 3 5/8 英寸 (24.1 x 15.4 x 9.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	这些带烛台的花香花瓶反映了对创新的追求，这是Sèvres工厂1760年代大部分生产的特点。这些花瓶本可以用作花香（里面的花瓣香味可以通过顶部穿孔的格子板飘来），两个侧面的蜡烛插座也可以用作烛台，但它们似乎主要是用来装饰的。无论是不同寻常的复杂形式，还是粉色和绿色的双重底色，都使它们与当时欧洲大陆或英国其他地方生产的任何产品完全不同如前所述，1776年，英国商人托马斯·本特利参观塞夫雷斯工厂时，不喜欢那里的一些模型，他在日记中进一步阐述了这一主题："他们有大量的装饰花瓶，珐琅和抛光的黄金非常丰富；在数百个花瓶中，可能有大约六个非常优雅的花瓶。其余的都不是古董也不是哥特式的，而是超乎想象的野蛮。"然而，这些花香花瓶的设计一定吸引了路易十五，1760年12月，他购买了四件粉红色和绿色的。鉴于这种型号的稀有性，已知大约有十五件幸存的各种颜色的样品，这双很可能是这次购买的一部分。工厂的销售记录表明，国王购买的四个花香花瓶将与另一种花瓶模型结合起来，形成一种装饰物。
介绍（英）	These potpourri vases with candleholders reflect the quest for innovation that characterizes so much of the Sèvres factory’s production of the 1760s. The vases could have been used as potpourris (the scent of petals inside could waft through the panels of pierced trelliswork at the top), and the two flanking candle sockets allowed them also to serve as candelabra, yet it seems probable that they were primarily intended for decoration. Both the unusual and complex form and the dual ground colors of pink and green made them completely unlike anything being produced elsewhere on the Continent or in Britain at this time. As mentioned earlier, the English businessman Thomas Bentley disliked some of the models he saw at the Sèvres factory when he visited there in 1776, and he enlarged on the topic in his journal: “They have an immense number of ornamental vases, highly enriched with enamel and burnished gold; and amongst several hundreds there may be about half a dozen very elegant forms. All the rest are neither antique nor gothic, but barbarous beyond conception.” The design of the potpourri vases must have appealed to Louis XV, however, as he purchased four with pink and green grounds in December 1760. Given the rarity of this model—approximately fifteen surviving examples with a variety of ground colors are known—it is probable that this pair was part of that purchase. The factory sales records indicate that the four potpourri vases acquired by the king were to join another model of vase to form a garniture.