Red Vase Mounted as a Cistern
Porcelain: 1720-1750; Mounts: 1760-1780 (Qing dynasty (1644-1911))
H: 11 3/4 in. (29.9 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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