Live Auction 7608Important European Furniture and Sculpture
A FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED JAPANESE KENJO IMARI PORCELAIN BOWL WITH LID
Lot 62

A FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED JAPANESE KENJO IMARI PORCELAIN BOWL WITH LID

THE PORCELAIN LATE 17TH 18TH CENTURY

Closed10 July 2008

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GBP 17,500

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A FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED JAPANESE KENJO IMARI PORCELAIN BOWL WITH LID
THE PORCELAIN LATE 17TH 18TH CENTURY
The domed lid and bowl decorated in iron red and blue with landscapes and floral sprays in cartouches, on a scrolling foliate-decorate ground with scaled roundels and a blue-and-white trellis border, the lid surmounted by a foliate-wrapped fruiting finial and with leaf tip-cast edge
10½ in. (27 cm.) high; 10¼ in. (26 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

From the early 1700's on Parisian marchands-merciers purchased exquisite objects in exotic Asian porcelain directly from one of the East Indies companies and passed it to their bronziers to be decorate. The majority of objects were mounted in gilt-bronze, however, some objects were decorated with silver mounts and related Imari porcelain bowls with French silver mounts are in the Getty Museum, Malibu (inv. 74.DI.27 and 79.DI.123).