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Vase with Portrait of President MacMahon
Alfred-Thompson Gobert (French, 1822-1894), Constantin Renard (French), Emile-Bernard Rejoux (French, 1832-), Jean-Denis Larue (French, 1884), and Jules Archelais (French, 1865-1902)c. 1872-1874
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Marie Edmé Patrice Maurice de MacMahon (1808-1893), whose portrait appears on this vase, was its first owner. He was a successful military leader who was given the titles of Duke of Magenta and Marshall of France by Napoleon III, but after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and the end of the Second Empire, MacMahon was elected second President of the Third Republic of France.
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- Title: Vase with Portrait of President MacMahon
- Creator: Alfred-Thompson Gobert (French, 1822-1894), Constantin Renard (French), Emile-Bernard Rejoux (French, 1832-), Jean-Denis Larue (French, 1884), Jules Archelais (French, 1865-1902)
- Date Created: c. 1872-1874
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 89.2 x 43.8 cm (35 1/8 x 17 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: President MacMahon, Paris; (his descendants, United States?). [Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York].
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.40
- Medium: porcelain with gilt bronze mounts
- Inscriptions: incised gilded letters located directly below portrait relief: "MACMAHON"; incised gilded letters located in complex design of ribbons above portrait: "AMOR PATRIA," and below: "SAPIENTIA," "FORTITUDO"; on primary face, beneath the ornamental surround of MacMahon's portrait: "Gob. R/Sèvres"; on reverse, incised gilt numerals located within ornamental ribbon: "1873"; incised in the porcelain inside neck: "CR 72 6" and beneath it "CR 72 9"; incised letters beneath the vase: "NL"; a small gilt-metal bucket is installed within the neck of the MacMahon Vase, on its bottom are scratched the letters: "ABF"; printed in green inside the neck and beneath the vase: "s 74"; printed in red on the lip: a circular stamp with the words "Decore a Sèvres 74" surrounding the initials "RF" [Repbulique Français].
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Accession Number: 1979.40
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