Vase with a Grapevine Motif

Porcelain: 1736-1795; Mounts: ca. 1800 (Qing dynasty (1644-1911)) 10 in. (25.4 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 1899 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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