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Title: Barber's basin with birds and vegetal ornament
Artist: Artist Unknown, France
Physical Description: This oval-shaped ceramic vessel features a wide, steep rim surrounding a large well in the center. The scalloped edges of the rim are cut back into a deep semicircle on one side. The rim is painted in underglaze blue and yellow with plant and floral motifs that are arranged in a whimsical, asymmetrical fashion around the edge. The well is decorated with similar vegetal motifs and two vaguely stork-like birds with long legs that confront one another on a strip of turf.
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1750
Accession Number: 1969/2.39
Medium and Support: tin-glazed earthenware (faience) with yellow and blue underglaze
relevance: rank 9.82406
Style/Group/Movement: Rococo

Title: Panel of Bizarre Silk
Artist: Artist Unknown, France
Physical Description: This brilliant coral-colored silk features an elaborate brocaded pattern consisting of exuberant sprays of flowers in yellow, blue, white, and gold thread joined to bunches of fruit and other ornament woven with silver thread. The ground is enlivened by a damask pattern of more schematic vegetal and geometric ornament that echoes these dominant motifs.
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1700-1715
Accession Number: 1972/2.237
Medium and Support: silk, silver and gold threads
relevance: rank 9.82406
Style/Group/Movement: Rococo

Title: L'Alliance de la Poésie et de la Musique (The Alliance of Poetry and Music)
Artist: Charles Joseph Natoire
Physical Description: Two women clad in flowing robes sit beneath a curved colonnade at the center of this delicately painted scene. The woman on the left, wearing a blue mantle, holds a lyre in her right hand and leans toward her companion, who holds open a musical score on her lap to which she points with her right hand. Books are piled on the steps next to the woman on the left and a putto sits next to her with a scroll unrolled across his lap. A second putto stands next to the other seated woman and plays a viol. A winged putto hovers over the heads of the two women, holding a small trumpet in his left hand and a laurel crown in his right, which he is about to place on the head of the woman with the lyre. Two bust-length portraits of men in oval frames wreathed with laurel hang from the columns in the background.
Artist Life Dates: 1700-1777
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1746
Accession Number: 1994/1.81
Medium and Support: oil on panel
relevance: rank 9.82406
Style/Group/Movement: Rococo

Title: Tureen with floral patterns and glass knob
Artist: Artist Unknown, France
Physical Description: This ovoid tureen stands on four curved, leaf-like feet that sprout upward and join together to form a pair of handles at either end of the vessel. The body of the tureen, composed of gentle undulating curves, is decorated with bright red and yellow flowers and leaves painted with overglaze enamel. A scallion, modeled in relief, rests bundled together with sprigs of parsley on top of the lid, introducing a playful trompe-l'oeil element. An onion forms the knob on the top of the lid.
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1750
Accession Number: 1969/2.41
Medium and Support: tin-glazed earthenware (faience) with overglaze enamel
relevance: rank 9.82406
Style/Group/Movement: Rococo

Title: Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharoah's Servants
Artist: Nöel Hallé
Physical Description: This painting shows the interior of a large prison room. There is a thick stone wall and iron grating. Three figures are the focal point of this composition. One man, in a dark blue cloak, is standing and faces two other men who stare intently at his face. One of them is seated with a leg iron, on a stone bench and the other leans on a stone ledge. They are are dressed in simple brown cloaks. The standing figure has a raised left arm and is gesturing with his hand outstretched toward the other figures.
Artist Life Dates: 1711-1781
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1747
Accession Number: 1984/1.287
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
relevance: rank 9.82406
Style/Group/Movement: Rococo

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