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- Tripod vase
- Attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751–1843) , Sculptor
- France
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- Date: 1785 - 1786
- Medium: Marble, plaster and gilt bronze
- Height: 37.4 cm
- Diameter: 20.3 cm
- Inv: F342
- Location: Landing
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- Neo-classical tripod vases such as this one and its pair, F343, were inspired by the antique bronze tripods found during excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii from the 1740s onwards and illustrated in many eighteenth-century folio editions such as the comte de Caylus' Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étruscanes, grecques et romaines, published in 7 volumes from 1752. One of Caylus’s protégés was the architect François-Joseph Belanger, who established the workshop for cutting and mounting hardstones in the Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs.
The mounts can be attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843, master 1772) and dated to 1785-6. They are similar to those on a mounted vase of dark blue Chinese porcelain in the Royal Collection and mounts on various mounted vases of Sèvres porcelain known to have been made by Thomire. A successful entrepreneur and a sculptor by training, Thomire was one of the most important bronze workers of the late eighteenth century and managed to remain successful even during the Revolution. He was an accredited supplier to the Emperor Napoleon in 1809 and yet was able to retain his privileged position even after the Restoration.
The vases were recorded in the 4th Marquess of Hertford's Parisian apartment at 3 rue Taitbout in 1871 and in the Vestibule at Hertford House by 1890.
- Neo-classical tripod vases such as this one and its pair, F343, were inspired by the antique bronze tripods found during excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii from the 1740s onwards and illustrated in many eighteenth-century folio editions such as the comte de Caylus' Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étruscanes, grecques et romaines, published in 7 volumes from 1752. One of Caylus’s protégés was the architect François-Joseph Belanger, who established the workshop for cutting and mounting hardstones in the Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs.