Covered Vase

Porcelain: 1775-1825; Mounts: 1870-1880 9 7/16 in. (24 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...

Artifact

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7890
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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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en
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