Sèvres Manufactory's Vase Japon

This new volume in the Frick Diptych features an essay by associate curator Marie—Laure Buku Pongo paired with a contribution by sculptor Arlene Shechet.

Despite its name suggesting otherwise, the Vase Japon is an interpretation of a Chinese bronze. Its design and decoration derive from a woodblock print of a Yu (or Hu) vase from the Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE). The print was published in a 40—volume catalogue of the vast Chinese imperial collections compiled between 1749 and 1751 at the be...