One of a Pair of Vases

Porcelain: 1st quarter 18th century; Mounts: 19th century 6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm) Citation Source image

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 1897 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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