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NOTES:
[1] This deep blue color, the tone and shade of lapis lazuli, is also called Mazarin-blue, apparently from the name of Franco-Italian Cardinal (Jules) Mazarin [1602-1661] or of his niece, the Duchesse de Mazarin [1646-1699], mistress of Charles II, though connections to either are unknown. Mazarin is also the name of a blue butterfly of Eurasian meadows.
ProvenanceFrom 1964
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC, acquired in 1964. [1]
Notes:
[1] In the early 1960s Charles H. Babcock (1899-1967) gave the house and its contents to the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. The house was then incorporated as a museum and collection (Reynolda House, Inc.) on December 18, 1964 with the signing of the charter at its first board meeting. The museum first opened to the public in September 1965.
DepartmentHistoric House
Decorative Vase
Maker
Edward F. Caldwell & Company
(1895 - 1959)
Datecirca 1917
Mediumenamel on metal with gilt-bronze
DimensionsOverall: 16 3/8 × 20 in. (41.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineReynolda Estate
CopyrightPublic Domain
Object number1922.2.57
DescriptionThis tall metal vase of baluster form is covered in a coating of flawless royal-blue enamel. [1] The gilt-bronze mounts at top and bottom are in the style of Louis XVI, having draped ornament on the shoulder simulating silk and twisted rope gathered on either side with bowknots and laurel wreaths. The high collar surrounding the neck is a continuous band of interlaced guilloche ornament; and the domed cover, with alternating plain and bellflower panels, is topped with a cluster of flowers. The base of the vase is supported on foot of ribbon enclosed faggots supported on four feet in the form of Greek key ornament, each topped with a single blossom having swollen anthers.NOTES:
[1] This deep blue color, the tone and shade of lapis lazuli, is also called Mazarin-blue, apparently from the name of Franco-Italian Cardinal (Jules) Mazarin [1602-1661] or of his niece, the Duchesse de Mazarin [1646-1699], mistress of Charles II, though connections to either are unknown. Mazarin is also the name of a blue butterfly of Eurasian meadows.
ProvenanceFrom 1964
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC, acquired in 1964. [1]
Notes:
[1] In the early 1960s Charles H. Babcock (1899-1967) gave the house and its contents to the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. The house was then incorporated as a museum and collection (Reynolda House, Inc.) on December 18, 1964 with the signing of the charter at its first board meeting. The museum first opened to the public in September 1965.
Status
On viewCollections
circa 1918
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