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FIG. 6B. A salmon's head mark on the silver rim of the lid. PUBLICATIONS
Wilson 1977, p. 2,2, no. 26; Lunsingh Scheurleer
FIG. 6c. A fleur-de-lys, a butterfly, and a dog's head mark on the 1980, p. 403, no. 439; Bremer-Davidet al. 1993, p. 150,
silver of the bowl. no. 250.

PROVENANCE

Consuelo Vanderbilt (Mme. Jacques Balsan);
acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum from Matthew
Schutz, Ltd., New York, in 1974.

NOTES
i. I am grateful to Clare le Corbeiller for her assistance in

reading the silver marks.
2,. Stephane Faniel, ed., Le dix-septieme siecle frangais

(Paris, 1958), p. 94 (illus. only).
3. Photograph in Getty curatorial files, taken by John

Whitehead.
4. One is illustrated in color in an advertisement published

in L'Oeil, no. 132 (December 1965). They then belonged
to J. Kugel, Paris.

the discharge mark for small silver used between Octo-
ber 13, 1744, and October 9, 1750. A dog's head is the
discharge mark for small silver used between Decem-
ber 2,2,, 1732,, and October 3, 1738. A single fleur-de-lys
with no crown would appear to be the discharge mark
for small work, 1 717-22.1

COMMENTARY

The bowl and the dish were made for export to
the West. The decoration is not typically Japanese, but
rather follows that of contemporary European textiles.
They may have been part of a commission in which a
European design was particularly specified.

Most of the gilding has been worn from the flowers
in relief on the lid. A bowl with similar mounts was in the
possession of Arturo Lopez-Willshaw.2 Another Imari
lidded bowl of similar dimensions and with silver mounts
of similar design is in the Topkapi Museum, Istanbul.3 A
pair of Chinese lidded bowls with silver mounts of the
same model was on the Paris market in T^6^.4

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