A Chinese porcelain bowl in Louis XVI ormolu mountings
A Chinese porcelain bowl in Louis XVI ormolu mountings
Border with lotus flower motifs above stylised tendrils alternating with insects. In fire gilt bronze mountings consisting of two gadrooned cuffs around the base and lip, connected via hinges to finely chased openwork tendrils along the sides with relief mascarons beneath the mobile handles. Firing cracks, a filled hole to the base. H 15 cm.
The porcelain Kangxi (1662 - 1722), the mountings Paris, around 1710 - 15.
Literature
For the mounting see Wilson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2000, cat. no. 3.
The same pots with similar mounts in Wannenes, Les bronzes ornementeaux et les objets montés de Louis XIV à Napoléon III, Milan 2004, p. 102.
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A Chinese porcelain bowl in Louis XVI ormolu mountings
Border with lotus flower motifs above stylised tendrils alternating with insects. In fire gilt bronze mountings consisting of two gadrooned cuffs around the base and lip, connected via hinges to finely chased openwork tendrils along the sides with relief mascarons beneath the mobile handles. Firing cracks, a filled hole to the base. H 15 cm.
The porcelain Kangxi (1662 - 1722), the mountings Paris, around 1710 - 15.
Literature
For the mounting see Wilson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2000, cat. no. 3.
The same pots with similar mounts in Wannenes, Les bronzes ornementeaux et les objets montés de Louis XIV à Napoléon III, Milan 2004, p. 102.
