A vase with a painting "Blind Man’s Bluff"

Second half of the 19th century. Porcelain, metal, gilding and overglaze painting
The game of blind man’s bluff, depicted on the vase, is an old popular children’s game in which the blindfolded player must catch and identify others. If he/she succeeds, the one who is caught is blindfolded.
In the past, blind man’s bluff was also an adult entertainment, which in the 17th century spread from bourgeois circles to the nobility. In the 18th century, it acquired a slightly erotic nuance typical of the Rococo era, since it enabled one to “legitimately” touch the opposite sex. Although the vase with this motif was made in the 19th century, it copies Rococo forms. This style came into fashion again in the 1850s, when it was call the Rococo Revival.

The Sèvres Porcelain factory, which was founded in 1738, operates in Sèvres, near Paris. It became very famous during the Rococo era, when it fulfilled commissions from the court, especially the king’s favourite, Madame de Pompadour.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, the author of the scene depicted on the vase, was one of the most important French painters during the Rococo era, and a member of the Royal Academy of Painting in Paris.