Page 83 - Mounted Oriental Porcelain, The Getty Museum

A PAIR OF BOWLS AND COVERS OF CHINESE
CELADON CRACKLE; each most elaborately
mounted with composition of scrollwork, groups of
fruit and flowers, of or-moulu; cast and finely chased
in the manner of Caffieri TJ in. high. 5

It is likely that all these mounts were made in the
same fondeur-ciseleur's atelier in the mid-eighteenth
century, when the popularity of such objects was at its
height. Accordingly, we find potpourris of oriental por-
celain sold by the marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux
during this period, but the descriptions in his daybook
are usually brief and unspecific, and the prices vary
greatly. For instance, on December 15, 1756:

Mme. La Ctesse de BENTHEIM: Deux Pots pourris
celadon, monies en bronze dore d'or moulu, 288
livres.

And on April 22, 1757:
S.A.S. Mgr. le Due d'ORLEANS: Un grand vase en
urne a dragons de relief, en porcelain truittee, monte
en bronze dore d'or moulu; deux autres grand vases
FIG. i3F. The six-character mark on the interior of the bowl.
de meme porcelaine, monies en pots pourris; & deux
bouteilles a dragons, meme porcelaine, montees en
bronze dore d'or moulu, 2960 livres. 6

An eighteenth-century watercolor design for a sim-
ilarly mounted lidded bowl is in the Esmerian Collec-
tion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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(fig. i3H). The foot mount and the pierced mount cen-
tered by a cluster of flowers are of the same form, though
the handles and finial differ. It forms part of a series of
drawings for elaborate objects which may have been
made for the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre
and are linked with the decorations of the palace of
Laeken for the Duke and Duchess of Sachsen-Teschen.

PUBLICATIONS
Bremer-David et al. 1993, p. 154, no. 2,58.

EXHIBITIONS
Chinese Porcelains in European Mounts, The China
FIG. i3G. The base of the bowl, painted with the two-character
mark "Tsen yu." Institute in America, New York, 1980, no. 19.

PROVENANCE
Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, December 14-15,
1933, no. 107; Mme. Henry Farman, Palais Galliera,
Paris, March 15, 1973, no. 25; Partridge (Fine Arts),
Ltd., London, 1973; acquired by the J. Paul Getty Mu-
seum from Partridge (Fine Arts), Ltd., in 1974.

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