150 F R E N C H M O U N T E D O R I E N T A L P O R C E L A I N
- Lidded Bowl
Porcelain: Japanese (Imari), circa 1700
Mounts: Paris, circa 1717-1722
Hard-paste porcelain; polychrome enamel
decoration; gilding; silver mounts
Height: 11 in. (27.9 cm); Width: 1 ft. i^3 /s in.
(34 cm); Depth: io^7 A in. (27.5 cm)
Accession number 79.Di.i23.a-.b
PROVENANCE
Mrs. Walter Hayes Burns, North Mymms
Park, Hertfordshire, by 1933; Major General
Sir George Burns (grandson of Mrs. Walter
Hayes Burns), North Mymms Park (sold,
Christie's, North Mymms Park, Septem
ber 24-26, 1979, lot 45).
EXHIBITIONS
London, 25 Park Lane, Three French Reigns,
February-April 1933, no. 226; New York,
The Frick Collection, Mounted Oriental
Porcelain, December 1986-March 1987,
no. 13, illus.BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wilson, "Acquisitions 1979 to mid 1980,"
no. 5, pp. 8-9, illus.; Wilson et al., Mounted
Oriental Porcelain, no. 3, pp. 28-31, illus.;
Handbook 1986, p. 148, illus.; Handbook
1991, p. 164, illus.250- Lidded Bowl
Porcelain: Japanese (Imari), circa 1680
Mounts: Paris, circa 1717-1727
Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze blue deco
ration; polychrome enamel; gilding; silver
mounts
Silver elements marked variously with a
fleur-de-lys without a crown (the Paris dis
charge mark for small silver works used
between October 23,1717, and May 5,1722);
a butterfly (the countermark used between
May 6,1722, and September 2,1727, under
the fermier Charles Cordier); a dog's head
(the Paris discharge mark for small works
used between December 22,1732, and
October 3,1738); and a salmon's head
(the Paris discharge mark for small silver
works used between October 13, 1744, and
October 9, 1750).
Height: 8^34 in. (22.3 cm); Width: io^5 /s in.
(27.1 cm); Depth: 8^3 /s in. (21.2 cm)
Accession number 74 .Di.27
PROVENANCE
Consuelo Vanderbilt (Mme Jacques Balsan);
[Matthew Schutz, Ltd., New York, 1974];
purchased by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches
und japanisches Porzellan in europäischen
Fassungen (Braunschweig, 1980), p. 114,
illus. p. 403, flg. 439; Wilson et al.,
Mounted Oriental Porcelain, no. 5, pp.
36-38, illus.249