Lot Essay
Anonymous sale, sold Christie's, Monaco, 19 June 1999, lot 93 (FF 241,500 = $38,326 including premium)
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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
(LOT 143)
A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN LARGE BEAKER VASES
THE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY AND WITH ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN POLYCHROME AND GILT DECORATION
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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN LARGE BEAKER VASES
THE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY AND WITH ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN POLYCHROME AND GILT DECORATION
Each of elongated beaker form, decorated in continuous underglaze blue scenes of courtiers and warriors, highlighted with 'clobbered' polychrome enamel glaze, with laurel-wreath banded base, on an incurving square plinth, the mounts late 19th early 20th century
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high (2)
THE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY AND WITH ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN POLYCHROME AND GILT DECORATION
Each of elongated beaker form, decorated in continuous underglaze blue scenes of courtiers and warriors, highlighted with 'clobbered' polychrome enamel glaze, with laurel-wreath banded base, on an incurving square plinth, the mounts late 19th early 20th century
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high (2)