CIRCA 1878

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A PAIR OF PARIS GILT AND PLATINUM GROUND OVIFORM VASES
Circa 1878
Each painted with exotic birds perched and in flight among flowering branches in resist on the platinum ground, the burnished gilt rims and fixed ring handles enhanced with black tracery
11½in. (29.2cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 10 September 1996, lot 159 and anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 12 March 1997, lot 83 for similar examples marked for the l'Exposition Universelle, 1878, Paris, Bender.

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