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According to family tradition, this example was exhibited at the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
BY AMPHORA
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A BRONZE MOUNTED 'JEWELED' CERAMIC VASE
by amphora
The tapered cylindrical vessel painted with a woman in an ornamental tiara gilded and inset with stones, against a setting sun on a glazed green-blue body, in a cast bronze foliate mount with two angular handles terminating in clusters of grapes, painted under glaze FOSTER, impressed AMPHORA AUSTRIA 12047 28 with a crown and signed under glaze with the firm's mark TURN.TEPLITZ.BOHEMIA .RStK. Made in Austria in red
24in. (60.9cm.) high
by amphora
The tapered cylindrical vessel painted with a woman in an ornamental tiara gilded and inset with stones, against a setting sun on a glazed green-blue body, in a cast bronze foliate mount with two angular handles terminating in clusters of grapes, painted under glaze FOSTER, impressed AMPHORA AUSTRIA 12047 28 with a crown and signed under glaze with the firm's mark TURN.TEPLITZ.BOHEMIA .RStK. Made in Austria in red
24in. (60.9cm.) high