I will pay for the following article The Lafayette Vase by Fauconnier. The work is to be 6 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.

I will pay for the following article The Lafayette Vase by Fauconnier. The work is to be 6 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. This was the work of a French goldsmith Jacques Henri Fauconnier. The vase itself had many decorations that were rich both in terms of aesthetics and also meaning. The most important of these decorative images is the statue of Liberty which depicts a young woman adorned in drapery (Campbell, 2006).

The vase was made of silver gilt and was approximately four feet high from the base all the way to the top. It was designed with two handles each made of vine-stalks and attached to the rim of the vase’s neck and having lion’s heads as support on the other edge. Furthermore, the neck of the vase was elaborately decorated with a civic crown whereas the bottom was elegantly enriched with ornamental aquatic leaves, sugarcane stems and coffee-tree. On one side of the vase was carefully decorated with the genius of industry and the genius of fine arts on the other. Here, the inscriptions. France, To General Lafayette” stand out (Cloquet, 1835).

On the other side was the date 1830 was inscribed suggesting the date the work on the vase was completed. A square-shaped pedestal also takes a majestic place in the vase and on it was decorations of the four statutes. that Wisdom, Liberty, Equality and Force (Cloquet, 1835).

This statue was presented in the form of a young lady in full drapery with a cap on her head. She appears to be holding the National flag on one hand while on the other hand, she is holding a sword. Under her feet, she seems to be trampling on a set of broken chains. This image seems to signify a willingness to defend a nation from any enemies and also a desire to fight any form of oppression and slavery as signified by the chains under the woman’s feet. Closer attention to the chains under the woman’s feet also reveals that the chains are broken further signifying that the struggle for liberation may already have been won (Cloquet, 1835).