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Mounted Vase with Abstract Crackle Decor
Chinese porcelain, French mounts
Qing dynasty, Qianlong period
Porcelain: probably 1736–95, mounts: about 1750–55
Medium/Technique
Porcelain, Jingdezhen ge-type ware; crackled light grayish-blue glaze; gilt-bronze mounts
Dimensions
Overall: 19.4 x 21.3 x 12.6 cm (7 5/8 x 8 3/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2271
NOT ON VIEW
DescriptionPair of small crackled celadon vases, mounted in Louis XV rococo ormolu rims, scroll flower decorated handles.
ProvenancePossibly Earl of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle, England [see note 1]. By 1948, with Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY; October 1, 1948, sold by Rosenberg & Stiebel to Forsyth Wickes, New York and Newport, RI (d. 1964); 1965, bequest of Wickes. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)
NOTES:
[1] see J. Munger, "The Forsythe Wickes Collection," 1992, no. 266, p. 294.
NOTES:
[1] see J. Munger, "The Forsythe Wickes Collection," 1992, no. 266, p. 294.