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Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelain and the Allure of the East; Dismantled handle of Frick mount, The Frick Collection, New York
 
Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelain and the Allure of the East
  

Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelain and the Allure of the East

Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelain and the Allure of the East

March 6 through
September 9, 2007

About This Exhibition

Introduction

Rococo Exotic

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Deep Blue Chinese Porcelain Jar with French Gilt-Bronze Mounts (one of a pair  

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  

Gilt-bronze Mounts, France, 1745–49
The Frick Collection, New York

 

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

 

Deep Blue Chinese Porcelain Jar  

Deep Blue Chinese Porcelain Jar
Porcelain, China, first half of the eighteenth century
(interior view from the top)
The Frick Collection, New York

 

Study for a Cartouche, date unknown  

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

Claude-Augustin Duflos (1700-1786) after François Boucher (1703-1770), Rocaille, c. 1737  

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

Pierre-Quentin Chedel (1705-1763) Fountain of Pinaeus (Fontaine de Penée), from Fantaisies Nouvelles, 1738  

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

Shells, Sea Urchins, Coral  

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

Shells, Sea Urchins, Coral
Shells, Sea Urchins, Coral

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.