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PUBLICATIONS NOTES
1. Laurent Heliot was a prosperous Parisian dealer between
Drouot, 1985-86, Isart et les encheres (Paris,
c. 1986), pp. zio, 302-; "Acquisitions/I99Z," GettyMus the wars who specialized in Chinese porcelain. His collec-
21 (1993), p. 140, no. 64; Bremer-David et al. 1993, tions were dispersed by his widow. Christie's and Sothe-
pp. 156-57, no. 2,64. by's also sold objects from Heliot's stock. I am grateful
PROVENANCE to Michel Fabre for this information.
2. For the iconographic significance of the double-gourd
Laurent Heliot, Fils, Paris; sold Hotel Drouot,
Paris, December 3, 1985, no. 55; B. Fabre et Fils, Paris; form, see Watson and Daut-erman 1966-70, vol. 4,
acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum from B. Fabre et p. 417. The prominent marckund-mercier Lazare Duvaux
Fils, Paris, in 1992. used the term calebas$e to describe vases of this shape.
On October 18, 1755, he sold to th^ collector Blondel
FIG. ZOD. Detail of the foot mount showing the stamp LH.
d'Azincourt: "deux vases celadon en forme de calehasse,
a relief, montees avec des branchages dores, 960 livres"
(Livre-journal de Lazare Duvaux 1873, v°l- 2? P- Z5^'
no. 2,2,59).
3. I am grateful to Stephen Koob, formerly objects conserva-
tor, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,
and Pamela Vandiver, senior ceramic research scientist,
Conservation Analytical Laboratory, both of the Smith-
sonian Institution, for their assistance.
4. Pere d'Entrecolles's first missionary area, in 1689, was
Jiangxi province, and many of his parishioners lived and
worked at Jingdezhen. In his letter of 1712 to Pere Orry,
procureur of the Chinese and Indian missions, he describes
the composition, preparation, modeling, decoration, and
glazing of porcelain and the stocking of the kilns. His col-
lected correspondence was published as Lettres edifiantes.
See Beurdeley and Raindre 1987, pp. 160, i6z.
5. The neoclassical mounts on a pair of celadon double-
gourd vases in the Wrightsman Collection are well married
to the form of the vessels. See Watson and Dauterman
1966-70, vol. 5, p. 417, no. 191 A-B, height i ft., zVi in.
(36.8 cm).
6. Robert R. Wark, French Decorative Art in the Huntington
Collection, 3d ed. (San Marino, 1979), p. 83, fig. 103,
height i ft., 41/! in. (41.2, cm). This vase is thought to date
from the Ming dynasty (1388-1644).
7. Clair de lune double-gourd vase with gilt-bronze mount
of about 1745-50, height i ft., l/2 in. (32 cm), Rijks-
museum, Amsterdam, in Lunsingh Scheurleer 1980,
p. 311, fig. 279.
PAIR OF VASES IOI
