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The Widener collection contains only Chinese mounted porcelains, although Turkish, Korean, Japanese,
and Persian vessels were treated in the same way, as were some European productions (e.g., Delft and Meissen
wares). Unlike other important collections of Chinese porcelains, the Widener collection lacks examples of blue-
and-white ware, both mounted and unmounted. Blue-and-white porcelain was, however, the type most often
mounted during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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NOTES
1. Watson 1986, pis. 2, 6.
2. Watson 1986, pis. 17, 28.
3. See Watson 1986, pi. 49.
4. Watson 1986, pi. 46. This illustration of the celebrated Gaignieres-Fonthill vase shows it in its mounts. For an interesting discussion
of this piece and its strange history, see Lane 1961,124-132.
5. Watson 1981, 27, figs. 2 and 3.
6. Averyi984.
7. Such interesting considerations are discussed in Watson 1986, Introduction.
8. The term chinoiserie, as applied to the decorative style of the eighteenth century, was not used, at least in print, until the mid-
nineteenth century.
9. Watson 1986, pi. 38. One pair of urns from the last quarter of the eighteenth century in the Detroit Institute of Arts is a
dramatic illustration.
10. An extensive glossary and bibliography for mounted Chinese porcelains are given in Watson 1986,133-136. Watson 1981, 33, has
an interesting discussion of bibliography on this subject.

REFERENCES
1961 Honour.
1980 Watson.
1981 Watson: 26-33.
1982 Bayer: 40-51.
1984 Avery: 266-272.
1986 Watson.

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