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1. NGA conservation report submitted by Barbara Berrie, 5. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, ace. nos. 1927.165 and
dated 6 August 1985. 166; Watson 1980, no. 30, repro.
2. Tichane 1978,67-69, states that the absence of titanium in the 6. Examples of double fish joined at the belly, mounted as
glaze produces the green ferrous colorant in blue celadon glazes. vases or ewers, include a pair in the Forsyth Wickes collection,
3. The mounts are catalogued separately by Sir Francis Watson Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ace. nos. 65.2260 and 2261:
in a forthcoming volume in this series, Decorative Arts, Part III. Watson 1980, no. 23; and pieces in the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, and Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore:
4. One exists in the Earl of Harewood collection, Yorkshire, Lunsingh Scheurleer 1980, figs. 329 and 330 respectively. In
England; also Lunsingh Scheurleer 1980, fig. 332. Several such Beijing, a Palace Museum example is illustrated in Palace
mounted fish are noted in eighteenth-century sales records: Museum 1989, pi. 141.
Watson 1986, 15; Watson 1980, 55, no. 30. One of the most
important purchasers of mounted porcelain, Madame de 7. Rawson 1984,114-116.
Pompadour, is recorded as having bought 150 pieces at a single
shop in a short period. See Hibbert 1985,110-115. A photograph REFERENCES
on page no shows one of her possessions, a mounted celadon
fish similar to the San Francisco pair, now at Waddesdon 1947 Christensen: 26; 1956: 30.
Manor; Lunsingh Scheuleer 1980, fig. 333. 1980 Lunsingh Scheurleer: 95, fig. 331.

Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng period (1723-1735), Pair of Vases in the Form of Carp, Mounted as Ewers, 1942.9.443-444

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