Cachepot or planter (one of a pair)
Probably France
1840-1900
Measurements
8-1/8 in x 9-1/4 in (dia)
Materials
Painted iron
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of H. Rodney Sharp
Accession Number
1959.3989
Condition Notes
The paint is flaking in places on both planters.
Provenance
Ex coll. H. Rodney Sharp
Comments
Each of the two cast-iron planters (or cachepot) has a pot with flaring sidewalls that fits into a separate base, also with flaring sidewalls. Three cast ring-shaped feet are soldered in place on the bottoms of each base. The pots are made of sheet iron soldered along a vertical seam.
The cachepots are painted white, now darkened with age. Each has the same detailed and finely executed polychromed decoration showing a colorful red, yellow and grayish-blue bird within a grape vine and near a small cluster of bluish grapes. The painted image is very rococo (or rococo revival) in character.
