Bowl Mounted with Two Fish
Bowl: 1730-1740; Fish: early 18th century; Mounts: 1745-1749 (Qing dynasty (1644-1911))
H: 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm)
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The European practice of mounting porcelains with silver and gold embellishments began as early as the Middle Ages. This custom reached its apogee in eighteenth-century France, where the taste for Asian exoticism as well as the extravagance of the Rococo style created a consu...
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore, prior to 1896 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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