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College, Oxford, which was mounted in silver-gilt
between 1506 and 1516 (see Introduction, fig. 6).

PUBLICATIONS
Wilson 1977, p. 12, no. 10; Lunsingh Scheurleer
1980,pp. 60, 252-53, figs. i58a-b; Watson 1980,p. 38,
no. 14; Bremer-David et al. 1993, p. 149, no. 247.

EXHIBITIONS
Chinese Porcelains in European Mounts, The China
Institute in America, New York, 1980, no. 14.

PROVENANCE
Collection of Louis Guiraud, Paris; sold at the sale
of Madame Louis Guiraud, Palais Galliera, Paris, De-
cember 10, 1971, no. i; acquired by the J. Paul Getty
Museum from Alexander and Berendt, London, in 1972.

NOTES
FIG. 3B. The underside of the lid.
1. Christie's, London, April 28, 1980, lot 83.
2. Treasures from Chatsworth: The Devonshire Inheritance
(Washington, D.C., 1979), p. 231, pi. 194.
COMMENTARY 3. American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New
Each jar has been made up from a complete lidded York, February 2,8 and March i, 1930, lot 75, property
vessel. The lid has been formed by attaching the shoul- of Count Piero Venezze.
der to the small original lid by means of a mount. The 4. Res. Mu. KVb 286/87. See Lunsingh Scheurleer 1980,
p. 253, fig. 159.
enamel decoration has peeled away in some small areas 5. Palais d'Or say, Paris, March 28, 1979, no. 19.
and has been retouched. This was probably done in 6. See, for example, a lidded blue-and-white Kangxi vase,
Paris at the time the jars were being fitted into the sold from the collection of Jacques Doucet, Galerie
mounts. The shape of the jars is based on traditional Georges Petit, Paris, June 7-8, 1912, no. 209; a pair of
verte vases, sold from
collection of
lidded famille
the
storage vessels that would have held tea, candy, rice Madame Louis Burat, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris,
crackers, or medicines. These jars were probably made June 18, 1937, no. 45; a single lidded famille verte vase,
for export as they are somewhat overdecorated to suit sold at Drouot-Montaigne, Paris, November 29, 1992,
16; a pair
no.
verte lidded vases, sold at Ader
of famille
European taste. Traditionally such jars would have been Picard Tajan, Paris, March 15, 1993, no. 439; and a
painted with two, four, six, eight, or twelve panels, but single lidded famille verte vase, sold at Christie's,
these have sixteen panels each. Monaco, December 5, 1993, no. 155.
A similarly decorated complete jar with a domed 7. Ace. no. D.68.
a
lid—but unmounted—was sold in London in 1980 ; a
pair of similarly decorated rouleau vases is in the Devon-
shire Collection at Chatsworth. 2 Another pair of jars of
similar shape and decoration, but converted into table
3
lamps, was sold in New York in 1930. A pair of Chinese
4
jars in the Residenzmuseum, Munich, has very similar
mounts. Similar strapwork mounts with handles are
found on a pair of cylindrical Kangxi vases sold in Paris
in 1979. 5 Other similarly mounted jars have passed
through the Paris auction rooms in the past century 6
and a pair of lidded bowls with mounts of this design is
in the Musee Jacquemart-Andre, Paris. 7
The practice of joining mounts with pinned hinges
is traditional and dates back to the medieval period. It is
to be found, for example, on the Warham Cup at New

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