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AN IRISH CUT-GLASS CENTERPIECE BOWL
CIRCA 1800
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AN IRISH CUT-GLASS CENTERPIECE BOWL
CIRCA 1800
The canoe-shaped bowl with shaped wavy rim above a band of lozenges enclosed in diamonds, on a plain knop, stem, and spiral molded lemon-squeezer base
14 1/8 in. (35.8 cm.) wide
Special notice
Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.
Lot Essay
See M.S. Diddley Westropp, M.R.I.A, Irish Glass, A History of Glass-Making in Ireland from the Sixteenth Century, Dublin 1978, page 97, plate XX, for a similar example.