Mounted Oriental Porcelain
- Pair of Lidded Bowls
Porcelain: Japanese (Arita), circa 1650
Mounts: English (London), circa 1670
Mounts attributed to Wolfgang Howzer
Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze blue deco
ration; gilt-metal mounts
Height: 1 ft. I^9 /I6 in. (34.5 cm); Width:
ι ft. 3 in. (38 cm); Depth: 10/16 in. (25.5 cm)
Accession number 85.DI.178.1-.2
PROVENANCE
Joseph Downs, Winterthur, Delaware;
William Heere (sold, Christie s, New York,
October 29,1983, lot 32); [Aveline et Cie,
Paris].
EXHIBITIONS
New York, The Frick Collection, Mounted
Oriental Porcehin, December 1986-March
1987, no. 9, pp. 46-47, illus.BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJ14 (1986),
no. 185, p. 240, illus.; F. J. B. Watson,
"Mounted Oriental Porcelain," The Maga
zine Antiques 131 (April 1987), pp. 813-823,
illus. p. 823.272 ENGLISH MOUNTED ORIENTAL PORCELAIN
One of a pair 477