Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair), porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50, Japanese with French mounts, Hard-paste porcelain, gilt-bronze mounts, H. 15 1/8 x W. 16 1/4 x D. 10 1/4 in. (38.4 x 41.3 x 26.0 cm), Metalwork-Gilt Bronze, Japanese porcelains with French mounts from the mid-eighteenth century are less common than mounted Chinese porcelains of the same period. Porcelains from Japan were sometimes chosen for mounting in silver in the first part of the century, but it seems that within several decades Chinese porcelains embellished with gilt bronze became the preferred choice of European collectors
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Potpourri bowl, cover, pair, porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca, 1745–50, Japanese, French mounts, Hard-paste porcelain, gilt-bronze, H, 15 1/8 x W, 16 1/4 D, 10 1/4, 38.4 41.3 26.0 cm, Metalwork-Gilt Bronze, Japanese porcelains, mid-eighteenth, less common, mounted Chinese, porcelains, period, Porcelains, Japan, sometimes chosen, mounting, silver, first part, century, seems, within several, decades, Chinese, embellished, gilt bronze, preferred choice, European collectors
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