A Pair of Famille Rose Reticulated Hexagonal Lanterns

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SALE TO BENEFIT THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, EX-COLLECTION DAVID A. BERG, NEW YORK*

A Pair of Famille Rose Reticulated Hexagonal Lanterns

18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A Pair of Famille Rose Reticulated Hexagonal Lanterns
18th/19th Century
Each with bowed, faceted sides, all decorated with a different figural medallion reserved on a panel of pierced diaper, within diaper borders decorated with iron-red blossoms, the whole surmounted by a flared bracket crown and raised on a matching foot
13¼in. (13.7cm.) high (2)

Special notice

Tax exempt.

Lot Essay

A lantern of this type decorated with figural reserves and with similar bracket crown and foot is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by W.E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1949, vol. II, p. 603.

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