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A silver mounted double gourd vase and cover, 19th/20th Century
the shaped fruit covered in pierced silver mount, each bulbous section of the body with four circular roundels decorated in relief with couples of auspicious characters, surrounded by flowering and fruiting gourd vases inlaid in turquoise, goldstone and coral, raised on three silver double-gourd supports with leafy apron -- 16in. (40.7cm.) high.
the shaped fruit covered in pierced silver mount, each bulbous section of the body with four circular roundels decorated in relief with couples of auspicious characters, surrounded by flowering and fruiting gourd vases inlaid in turquoise, goldstone and coral, raised on three silver double-gourd supports with leafy apron -- 16in. (40.7cm.) high.
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