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Drouot, 1985-86, I art et les encheres (Paris, 1. Laurent Heliot was a prosperous Parisian dealer between
c. 1986), pp. zio, 302-; "Acquisitions/I99Z," GettyMus the wars who specialized in Chinese porcelain. His collec-
and Sothe-
Christie's
tions were dispersed by his widow.
21 (1993), p. 140, no. 64; Bremer-David et al. 1993, by's also sold objects from Heliot's stock. I am grateful
pp. 156-57, no. 2,64. to Michel Fabre for this information.
2. For the iconographic significance of the double-gourd
form, see Watson and Daut-erman 1966-70, vol. 4,
PROVENANCE p. 417. The prominent marckund-mercier Lazare Duvaux
Laurent Heliot, Fils, Paris; sold Hotel Drouot, used the term calebas$e to describe vases of this shape.
Paris, December 3, 1985, no. 55; B. Fabre et Fils, Paris; On October 18, 1755, he sold to th^ collector Blondel
acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum from B. Fabre et d'Azincourt: "deux vases celadon en forme de calehasse,
a
livres"
relief,
montees avec des branchages dores, 960
Fils, Paris, in 1992. (Livre-journal de Lazare Duvaux 1873, °l- ? P- 5^'
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no. 2,2,59).
3. I am grateful to Stephen Koob, formerly objects conserva-
tor, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,
and Pamela Vandiver, senior ceramic research scientist,
Conservation Analytical Laboratory, both of the Smith-
sonian Institution, for their assistance.
4. Pere d'Entrecolles's first missionary area, in 1689, was
Jiangxi province, and many of his parishioners lived and
worked at Jingdezhen. In his letter of 1712 to Pere Orry,
procureur of the Chinese and Indian missions, he describes
the composition, preparation, modeling, decoration, and
glazing of porcelain and the stocking of the kilns. His col-
lected correspondence was published as Lettres edifiantes.
See Beurdeley and Raindre 1987, pp. 160, i6z.
5. The neoclassical mounts on a pair of celadon double-
gourd vases in the Wrightsman Collection are well married
to the form of the vessels. See Watson and Dauterman
1966-70, vol. 5, p. 417, no. 191 A-B, height i ft., zVi in.
(36.8 cm).
6. Robert R. Wark, French Decorative Art in the Huntington
Collection, 3d ed. (San Marino, 1979), p. 83, fig. 103,
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height i ft., 4 /! in. (41.2, cm). This vase is thought to date
FIG. ZOD. Detail of the foot mount showing the stamp LH. from the Ming dynasty (1388-1644).
7. Clair de lune double-gourd vase with gilt-bronze mount
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of about 1745-50, height i ft., /2 in. (32 cm), Rijks-
museum, Amsterdam, in Lunsingh Scheurleer 1980,
p. 311, fig. 279.

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