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THE PORCELAIN: Chinese (Kangxi), 1662-1722
THE GILT-BRONZE MOUNTS: French (Paris), 1745-49
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HEIGHT: i ft., 3*74 in. (40 cm); WIDTH: i ft., 3 /! in. (39.3 cm); DEPTH: n in. (27.8 cm)
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DESCRIPTION ers, and berries that form the double-scrolled handles
The potpourri bowl is composed of two thickly (fig. 130)5 which are joined at the upper end to the cen-
potted circular bowls of pale celadon glazed porcelain, tral pierced band. A gilt-bronze finial in the form of a
each carved on the exterior in low relief with scrolls of spiraling spray of leaves and flowers forms a handle for
flowering tree peony branches. One bowl is inverted the upper bowl (fig. 130). This is attached by two pins
over the other and is separated by a wide band of gilt which pass through holes drilled in the porcelain; it is
bronze pierced with concave ovaloes, overlaid with a secured in the interior by flower-shaped nuts also of gilt
bunch of flowers and leaves at the center of the back and bronze (fig. i3E). Though originally of identical shape
front (fig. 13A). and size, the upper bowl has been cut down around the
The lower bowl is supported on a base of gilt bronze rim by about an inch, removing a carved border of dia-
resting on eight C-scrolls joined in pairs (fig. 136). From mond key-fret, which appears inside the upper edge of
each pair emerges a single flower with leaves and berries. the lower bowl. The foot ring has been ground off the
At each side the lower half of the bowl is clasped by gilt- inverted bowl to accommodate the finial.
bronze straps from which spring trails of foliage, flow-

FIG. 13A

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