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A BLUE AND WHITE BIDET
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A BLUE AND WHITE BIDET

CIRCA 1790

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A BLUE AND WHITE BIDET
Circa 1790
The violin-shaped vessel with small aperture at one end painted in the interior with two swallows in flight above a figure in a boat sailing up a wide river with pavilions and trees on each bank, the exterior with flower sprays
235/8 in. (60 cm.) long, European wood four-legged stand
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Lot Essay

Compare the almost identical bidet, also with European wood stand, exhibited, A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, London, 1997, catalogue no. 157, p. 125. Another, without stand, was in the John T. Durrance Jr. collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 20 and 21 October 1989, lot 396.

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