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FIG. 5C. The underside of the lid.

EXHIBITIONS NOTES
Chinese Porcelains in European Mounts, The China 1. Musee Guimet, Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great
Institute in America, New York, 1980, no. 3. Collections (Paris, 1981) p. 28. Similar complete
unmounted jars were sold at auction: Christie's, London,
November 24, 1932, lot 86, height i ft., zVi in. (36.8 cm);
PROVENANCE Sotheby's, Monaco, February 12, 1979, no. 535, height
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Bouvier collection, France; Jacques Seligmann, 1 ft., 7 /s in. (50 cm).
Paris, before 1938; Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, New York; 2. Henri Nocq, "L'orfeverie du dix-huitieme siecle:
acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum from Matthew Quelques marques: Le C. Couronne," Le Figaro artis-
tique (April 1924), pp. 2-4.
Schutz, Ltd., New York, in 1975. 3. Pierre Verlet, "A Note on the Toin^on' of the Crowned
C C'," Apollo, vol. 26, no. 151 (July 1937), pp. 2,2-2,3.
4. Ace. no. 76.DF.i3.
5. Hughes 1996, vol. 2, p. 830. Its companion F6i is
stamped I. DUBOIS. It is likely that both armoires were
repaired by Jacques Dubois in the mid-eighteenth century.
6. Palais d'Orsay, Paris, February 21, 1978, no. 26, now in
a New York private collection.
7. The porcelain is blue-and-white of the Kangxi period
(1662-1722).
8. Kurfurst Max Emanuel: Bayern und Europa um 1700,
2 vols. (Munich, 1976), vol. 2, p. 330.
9. Drouot-Montaigne, Paris, November 22, 1987, no. 215.
The jars were enameled in the famille verte style.
10. Sotheby's, London, March n, 1999, lot 601.

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