Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of Europe: July 2009–June 2011
Pair of covered vases
about 1805
Height: 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm)
Patinated and gilt bronze; brass
Classification: Decorative arts
Culture: English (London)
Accession number: 2010.1037.1a-b - 2a-b
Description: Each with circular flaming-finial mounted tops above a circular waisted body with winged masks to each side and chimerical beasts issuing arched handles, above a waisted brass socle, on a concave-side canted triangular base, with reeded angles, each side mounted with masks, on scrolled and palmette paw feet.
Provenance/Ownership History: February 9, 1993, anonymous sale, Phillips, London, lot 132, probably to H. Blairman and Sons, London. Acquired on the London art market by Horace Wood Brock, New York; 2010, gift of Horace Wood Brock to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)
Gift of Horace Wood Brock