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Attributed to Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres (French, founded 1740)

Date1821

Mediumporcelain with bronze and wood

Dimensions34 1/2 inches (87.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Nelda C. Stark, 1980

Object number41.24.2.A

ClassificationsHousehold Accessories

DescriptionBronze circular base with four feet; wooden disc under bronze base with hole for bolt; porcelain spreading foot base; bronze bolt with leaves extending up porcelain body connecting bronze base, wooden disc, and porcelain body; porcelain body tapers toward base; waisted neck; widely flaring rim; band of overlapping foliage on base rim; dark blue ground with gold bands and foliage patterns on porcelain base; dark blue ground with gold scrolling floral and foliage designs on body and neck; pastoral scene with standing female figure in white toga holding sheaves of wheat; on reverse standing female figure in coral colored toga holding daisy with daisy wreath in hair; egg and dart pattern gold band above scenes.

ProvenanceProbably W.H. Stark [1851-1936] and Miriam Lutcher Stark [Mrs. W.H. Stark, 1859-1936]; by inheritance to their son H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; by inheritance to his wife Nelda C. Stark [1909-1999]; gifted December 11, 1980 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to The W.H. Stark House

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