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FIG. i3F. The six-character mark on the interior of the bowl. A PAIR OF BOWLS AND COVERS OF CHINESE
CELADON CRACKLE; each most elaborately
FIG. i3G. The base of the bowl, painted with the two-character mounted with composition of scrollwork, groups of
mark "Tsen yu." 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
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
(fig. i3H).7 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
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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