Bowl with Flowering Prunus

Porcelain: 1720-1730; Mounts: mid 18th century

16.9 cm 12.5 cm 12 cm

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The flowering prunus on this white bowl is rendered in relief.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 a...

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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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