拍品 149
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AN ENAMELLED CROCUS POT after a French faience original modelled as a commode of rectangular bombe shape, moulded and decorated in blue enamel, iron-red and gilt with drawers and handles, the sides with floral cartouches, the flat top with five circular apertures around a peony (fritted), 18th Century

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AN ENAMELLED CROCUS POT after a French faience original modelled as a commode of rectangular bombe shape, moulded and decorated in blue enamel, iron-red and gilt with drawers and handles, the sides with floral cartouches, the flat top with five circular apertures around a peony (fritted), 18th Century
20cm. wide

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'Such bulb pots were filled with water, and the bulbs rested on the holes with their roots in the water for nourishment' cf. Howard and Ayers, op. cit., p.572, pl.594