{"id":1115,"date":"2020-03-09T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2020-05-05T16:34:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T14:34:57","slug":"paire-de-vases-en-porphyre-de-suede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/paire-de-vases-en-porphyre-de-suede\/","title":{"rendered":"A pair of Swedish porphyry vases circa 1800-1810"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Baluster shaped vases in Swedish porphyry, ornamented with gilt bronze friezes, on squared base.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Period: circa 1800-1810.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dimensions : H : 19,3 in - D : 15 in<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A pair of vases of a very similar model to our vases , has been offered by Karl XIV John to the Duke of Wellington, and belongs now to the collections of Apsley House, London residence of the First Duke of Wellington. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Being a hard stone, porphyry is extremely difficult to cut and polish, varying in color from red to green, presenting often Feldspath stains. \nConsidered as the most noble antique stone, and because of its purple color,  it has always been used for objects symbolizing power.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The porphyry used in Antiquity was a deep purple stone extracted from Mons Porphyrites in Egypt;  and when the Roman Empire took control of Egypt, purple being the imperial color, a large number of pieces were produced. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">For the same reasons, this same craze took place in France following the Napoleonic incursions into Egypt and the establishment of the French Empire. A lot of Grand Tour objects were produced in porphyry, associated with other marbles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">In 18th century, Sweden became the most important producer of porphyry for Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The stone is discovered in 1731 in the valley of \u00c4lvdalen, and Carl Linnaeus noticed it in 1734 while traveling through the region. In 1780, some experiments were carried out and \u00c4lvdalen quickly became the main mining center for porphyry. Porphyry production destined for Europe remained concentrated in this region, and the architect Carl Fredrik Sundvall was famous to design a lot of models for vases. <\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De forme balustre, en porphyre de Su\u00e8de, orn\u00e9s de frises de bronze cisel\u00e9 dor\u00e9, sur une base carr\u00e9e. Epoque&nbsp;: vers 1800-1810. Dimensions&nbsp;: h&nbsp;: 49 cm \u2013 D&nbsp;: 38 cm. Une paire de vases d\u2019un mod\u00e8le tr\u00e8s similaire aux n\u00f4tres fut offerte par Karl XIV John au Duc de Wellington. Elle est aujourd\u2019hui conserv\u00e9e \u00e0 Apsley &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/paire-de-vases-en-porphyre-de-suede\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00ab\u00a0Paire de vases en porphyre de Su\u00e8de- Circa 1800-1810\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-objets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}