ID: 700000156 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000156	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Lidded Bowl (bowl (vessel); unknown Chinese (Kangxi), with French mounts; bowl: 1662/1722; mounts: ca. 1...; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 87.DI.4)

Note: The European practice of decorating precious, exotic objects with gilt bronze or silver mounts dates back to the late Middle Ages. These mounts were a tribute not only to the beauty of the material but also to its extreme rarity. By the mid-1600s, when Europeans began to import larger quantities of Asian works of art, they continued to mount Chinese and Japanese porcelain in precious or semi-precious metals to emphasize their unusual colors and design. Remarkably, this Chinese porcelain lidded bowl has silver mounts, rather than the more common gilt bronze. The French usually matched silver with Japanese Imari porcelains rather than with Chinese pieces.

Titles:

Lidded Bowl (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

bowl (vessel) [300203596] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Containers (hierarchy name), containers (receptacles), <containers by form>, vessels (containers))

Classifications:

ceramics (preferred)

European art

decorative arts

Asian art

Creation Date: bowl: 1662/1722; mounts: ca. 1722/1727

Creator Display:

unknown Chinese (Kangxi), with French mounts [preferred,VP]

creator unknown Kangxi (Kangxi cultural designation) [500354918]

unknown French (French cultural designation) Extent: addition [500125235]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 87.DI.4

Display Materials: hard paste porcelain, enamel and gilding; silver mounts

	hard paste porcelain (material) [300010663]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, clay, <clay by product>, <ceramic and ceramic by product>, ceramic (material), porcelain (material))

	enamel (fused coating) [300014910]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by composition or origin>)

	silver (metal) [300011029]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by composition or origin>, nonferrous metal, <silver| silver compounds| alloys>)

	gold (metal) [300011021]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by composition or origin>, nonferrous metal, <gold and gold alloy>)

Dimensions: 20.32 cm (height) ( 8 inches); 24.89 (diameter) (9 7/8 inches)

Cultures:

Chinese (preferred)

French

General Subject:

utilitarian objects (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	bowl (vessel) [300203596]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Containers (hierarchy name), containers (receptacles), <containers by form>, vessels (containers)) (AAT)

	flowers (plant components) [300132399]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, biological components, plant components) (AAT)

Marks: Markings: Each silver mount bears a dove (the Paris discharge mark for small silver works used between May 6, 1722, and September 2, 1727, under the fermier Charles Cordier).

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
Lidded Bowl	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... CDWA online (1995-)
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)