A silver-mounted Imari porcelain bowl and cover - Lot 63

A silver-mounted Imari porcelain bowl and cover A silver-mounted Imari porcelain bowl and cover Porcelain: Japan, 17th century Mounting: Paris, 1717-1722 H. 15 cm; W. 20.6 cm Pds 801 g. Marks: A fleur-de-lys: discharge for small items 1717-1722. A lizard: countermark for old works 1738-1744. The round bowl and its domed lid are in Arita porcelain decorated in the Imari palette: blue, red, pink and gold. Each features four large cartouches decorated with birds, butterflies and leafy, flowering branches. The bowl rests on a silver gadrooned pedestal. The silver mounting of the lid features a gadrooned border and, in the center, a domed terrace decorated with tracerematis fleurons and lambrequins, on which the fretel is fixed, formed of a stem with a button, half plain, half gadrooned. The console handles are made of a molded silver band. The upper part is riveted directly into the porcelain, while the lower part is attached to the base by a hinge extended by an openwork, scalloped fastener. Condition: good, with the fretel previously sunken then straightened, but not missing.