Mounted vase, porcelain early 18th century, mounts ca. 1750

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Mounted vase, porcelain early 18th century, mounts ca. 1750, Chinese with French mounts, Hard-paste porcelain; gilt-bronze mounts, H. 23 3/8 x W. 13 3/4 x D. 12 1/2 in. ( x x cm), Metalwork-Gilt Bronze, With delight one notices . . . a very large number of pieces of old porcelain of the greatest perfection, and the mounts that accompany the pieces seem to rival them in value. Antoine-Nicolas Dézallier d’Argenville, Voyage pittoresque de Paris In eighteenth-century France, gilt bronze played important functional and decorative roles in the houses of those who could afford it

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