Pair of vases, ca. 1750, Chinese with French mounts, Hard-paste porcelain, gilt bronze, Overall: 7 1/4 × 7 1/4 × 5 1/2 in., 6lb. (18.4 × 18.4 × 14 cm, 2.7216kg), Metalwork-Gilt Bronze, These vases of the Ch'ien Lung period were embellished in Paris with scrolled and foliated mounts that were used as bases, handles, and rims, thus adapting the vases to the European Rococo aesthetic. Mounting Asian and European porcelain became a standard and lucrative practice for the Parisian marchands merciers
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Pair, vases, ca, 1750, Chinese, French mounts, Hard-paste porcelain, gilt bronze, Overall, 7 1/4, 5 1/2, 6lb, 18.4, 14 cm, 2.7216kg, Metalwork-Gilt Bronze, Ch'ien Lung, period, embellished, Paris, scrolled, foliated, bases, handles, rims, thus adapting, European Rococo, aesthetic, Mounting Asian, standard, lucrative practice, Parisian marchands, merciers
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