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Deep Blue Chinese Porcelain Jar with French Gilt-Bronze Mounts (one of a pair)
Porcelain, China, first half of the eighteenth century
The Frick Collection, New York
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Gilt-bronze Mounts, France, 1745–49
The Frick Collection, New York |
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Deep Blue Chinese Porcelain Jar
Porcelain, China, first half of the eighteenth century
(with mounts removed and cut rims exposed)
The Frick Collection, New York
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Deep Blue Chinese Porcelain Jar
Porcelain, China, first half of the eighteenth century
(interior view from the top)
The Frick Collection, New York
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Pierre-Edmé Babel (1720–1775)
Study for a Cartouche, date unknown
Pen and brown ink, brush, and brown and gray wash
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1957 |
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Claude-Augustin Duflos (1700–1786)
after François Boucher (1703–1770)
Rocaille, c. 1737
Etching with engraving
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953 |
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Pierre-Quentin Chedel (1706–1763) Fountain of Pinaeus (Fontaine de Penée),
from Fantaisies Nouvelles, 1738
Etching
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930 |
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Shells, Sea Urchins, Coral
Architectonica maxima (giant sundial); Argonauta argo (paper nautilus); Astralium longispina (long spine star snail); Cassis rufa (grinning mouth helmet); Chicoreus chicoreum (endive murex); Conus marmoreus (marbled cone); Conus textile; Cypraea maculifera (cowrie); Fusinus colus (distaff spindle); Guilfordia yoka (yoka star tuban); Lambis lambis (spider conch); Lambis millepeda (millipede conch); Mimachlamys senatoria nobilis (noble scallop); Murex pecten (spiny murex); Pteria sterna (oyster shell with blister pearl); Siratus alabaster (alabaster murex); Spondylus americanus (American spiny oyster); Tridacna squamosa (giant clam); Tonna luteostoma (gold-mouthed tun); Turbo marmoratus (green turban snail); Echinus esculentus (sea urchin); Tripneustes gratilla (sea urchin); Stylophora sp.(coral); ophogorgia sp.(coral); Orange sea fan; Purple coral.
American Museum of Natural
History, New York
Collection of Edgar Munhall, New York
Collection of Christopher Gow, New York |
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Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelains and the Allure of the East is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication that features an introduction by Chief Curator Colin B. Bailey as well as an essay by Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Kristel Smentek, catalogue entries, and a bibliography. It is available in the Museum Shop of The Frick Collection.
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