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Another pair of deep blue vases, mounted as ewers, "La garniture en bronze dore d'or moulu de deux vases
with very similar lip mounts, passed through the Lon- de la Chine, de quoi en fait deux buires ... 288 livres." 6
don auction rooms in 1924.4
Mounted porcelains of this type listed in the Livre- PUBLICATIONS
journal of Lazare Duvaux were invariably highly priced; Wilson 1979, p. 42, no. 6; Watson 1980, p. 52,
a typical example is the sale to Madame de Pompadour no. 28; Watson 1981, pp. 26-33; Watson 1986, no. 19;
on December 6, 1751, "Deux autres vases en hauteur de Bremer-David et al. 1993, pp. 153-54, no. 257.
porcelaine celadon ancienne, monies en forme de buire
en bronze cisele doree d'or moulu . . . 1,680 livres." 5 EXHIBITIONS
Another entry in the Livre-journal provides evi- Chinese Porcelains in European Mounts, The China
dence of the cost of transforming vases into ewers: on Institute in America, New York, 1980, no. 28; Mounted
July 15, 1750, Duvaux sold to le Chevalier de Genssin Oriental Porcelain, The Frick Collection, New York,
1986, no. 19.

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