Value:20.32 Unit: cm Type:
height Value:24.89 Unit: cm Type:
diameter
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Materials and Techniques
Description:
hard paste porcelain, enamel and gilding; silver mounts
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Material Names:
hard paste porcelain enamel
silver
gold
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Subject Matter
Indexing Terms:
object (utilitarian)
bowl
flowers
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Descriptive Note
Text: 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 with delicate painted pink flowers
has silver mounts, rather than the more common gilt
bronze. The French usually matched silver with Japanese
Imari porcelains rather than with Chinese pieces.
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Citations: J. Paul Getty Museum online
Page: accessed 10 February 2005
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Location
Repository Name/Geographic Location:
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California, United
States) Repository Number:
87.DI.4
