Vase of the winners of the Paris Olympic Games
- Inventory number
- 2024.10.1
- Barcode
- 92035
- Type
- Vase
- Period
- Paris 1924
- Creator / Author
- Guillonnet Octave / Montgeron / Bracquemond Emile / Manufacture nationale de Sèvres
- Origin
- MNS - 2024.10 - Achat en vente publique/préemp - Grossetti enchères - 8 juin 2024
- Usage
- Jeux Olympiques de Paris 1924
- Dimensions
- 34 cm - diam. 15 cm
Physical description
Ceramic vase with a very elongated and oval shape. The mouth is decorated on the edge with a frieze with a grey background and white motifs of aircraft. The belly has a navy blue background decorated with floral motifs and golden foliage. In the middle of the belly, four medallions, imitation biscuit, are decorated with white silhouettes slightly in relief exercising a different sporting discipline: sailing, shooting, tennis, cycling.
Notes
During the 1924 Olympic Games, porcelain vases sculpted by Emile Louis Bracquemond (1889-1970) and made by the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres were offered by the city of Paris to the various medallists. Four separate copies had been ordered for these Olympiads, each of which had a decoration of four circular medallions, surrounded by a green band standing out against a blue background decorated with leaves and berries painted in fine gold. The collar is decorated with a frieze of white planes in flight, outlined in blue on a grey background. Sixteen sports were therefore represented on the vases. It is the example of the series 4 illustrating sailing, shooting, tennis and cycling.
Photo credits
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