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A FIVE-PIECE MANTEL GARNITURE
CIRCA 1740
Each piece of sextagonal form and painted with a fenced garden scene showing chrysanthemum, peony and daisies in iron-red, gilt, blue and pink growing from weathered rocks, willow branches overhanging all, the rims with narrow borders of turquoise diaper and iron-red flowerheads, slightly domed covers surmounted by pointed knops centered with further flowerheads (two knops restuck, small restorations to cover rims, two hairline cracks)--13½in. (34.4cm.) high (5)
CIRCA 1740
Each piece of sextagonal form and painted with a fenced garden scene showing chrysanthemum, peony and daisies in iron-red, gilt, blue and pink growing from weathered rocks, willow branches overhanging all, the rims with narrow borders of turquoise diaper and iron-red flowerheads, slightly domed covers surmounted by pointed knops centered with further flowerheads (two knops restuck, small restorations to cover rims, two hairline cracks)--13½in. (34.4cm.) high (5)