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19TH CENTURY
Details
A PAIR OF CRANES
19TH CENTURY
Modelled in mirror image with blue beaks open revealing iron-red tongues, their beady black eyes with alert expression and each with one talon grasping a sacred fungus which grows from a knarled pine tree on the blue rockwork base
23¼ in. (59 cm.) high (2)
19TH CENTURY
Modelled in mirror image with blue beaks open revealing iron-red tongues, their beady black eyes with alert expression and each with one talon grasping a sacred fungus which grows from a knarled pine tree on the blue rockwork base
23¼ in. (59 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
A Greenwich, CT estate; Christie's, New York, 30 January 1993, lot 100 With The Chinese Porcelain Co., New York