260
- Vase
Porcelain: Chinese, Yongzheng, circa 1730
Mounts: Paris, circa 1745-1750
Hard-paste porcelain, celadon ground color;
gilt-bronze mounts
Height: 1 ft. 2I/z in. (36.8 cm); Width: 6 in.
(15.2 cm); Depth: 4% in. (11.5 cm)
Accession number 75.Di.69
PROVENANCE
Trustees of Swinton Settled Estates (sold,
Christie's, London, December 4,1975, lot
46); purchased at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
EXHIBITIONS
New York, The China Institute in America,
Chinese Porcelains in European Mounts,
October 1980-January 1981, no. 18, illus.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches
und japanisches Porzellan in europδischen
Fassungen (Braunschweig, 1980), p. 94, illus.
p. 330, fig. 318; Wilson et al., Mounted
Oriental Porcelain, no. 12, pp. 62-64, illus.
- Pair of Pot-pourri Vases
Porcelain: Japanese (Arita or early Hirado
kilns), late seventeenth century
Mounts: Paris, circa 1750
Hard-paste porcelain, celadon ground color;
polychrome enamel decoration; gilt-bronze
mounts
Height: 6 in. (15.2 cm); Width: y^3 A in.
(18.7 cm); Depth: 6V2 in. (16.5 cm)
Accession number 77.DI.90.1-.2
One of a pair 261
PROVENANCE
(?) M. Jullienne, Paris (sold by C. F. Julliot,
Paris, 1767, no. 1403); (?) Pierre-Louis
Randon de Boisset, Paris (sold, Paris,
February 3, 1777, lot 603, to the duchesse
de Mazarin for 600 livres); (?) C. F. Julliot,
Paris (sold, Paris, November 20,1777, lot
331); (?) Radix de Sainte-Foix, Paris (sold,
Paris, April 22,1782, lot 55, for 130 livres
to Lebrun; (?) Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun,
Paris (sold, Paris, April 11,1791, lot 698, for
120 livres to M. Paillet, who was probably
the commissaire-priseur); [Didier Aaron and
Claude Levy, Paris, 1970s]; [Etienne Levy,
Paris, 1977].
EXHIBITIONS
New York, The Frick Collection, Mounted
Oriental Porcehin, December 1986-March
1987, no. 27, pp. 82-83, U1US-
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wilson, "Acquisitions 1977 to mid 1979,"
no. 2, p. 37, illus.; Wilson et al., Mounted
OrientalPorceUin, no. 13, pp. 65-67, illus.;
Genevieve Mazel, "1777, La Vente Randon
de Boisset et le marchι de Fart au i8e siιcle,"
VEstampille 202 (April 1987), p. 47, illus.;
Michel Beurdeley, "Paris 1777: La Vente
Randon de Boisset ou le mιcanisme secret
des ventes publiques au XVIIIe siιcle," Trois
siecles des ventes publiques (Fribourg, 1988),
p. 53, illus.
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