Mounted Oriental Porcelain

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ENGLISH MOUNTED ORIENTAL
PORCELAIN
Mounted Oriental Porcelain
477. P a i r o f L i d d e d B o w l s
Porcelain: Japanese (Arita), circa 1650
M o u n t s : English (London), circa 1670
M o u n t s attributed to Wolfgang Howzer
Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze blue deco­
ration; gilt-metal mounts
Height: 1ft.I
9
/I6
i n . (34.5 cm); W i d t h :
ι ft. 3 i n . (38 cm); D e p t h : 10/16 i n . (25.5 cm)
Accession number 85.DI.178.1-.2
P R O V E N A N C E
Joseph Downs, W i n t e r t h u r , Delaware;
W i l l i a m Heere (sold, Christie s, N e w York,
October 29,1983, l o t 32); [Aveline et Cie,
Paris].
E X H I B I T I O N S
N e w York, T h e Frick Collection, Mounted
Oriental Porcehin, December 1986-March
1987, no. 9, pp. 46-47, illus.
One of a pair
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
"Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJ14 (1986),
no. 185, p . 240, illus.; F. J. B . Watson,
" M o u n t e d Oriental Porcelain," The Maga­
zine Antiques 131 (April 1987), p p . 813-823,
illus. p. 823.
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