A PAIR OF PARIS PORCELAIN PLATINUM-GROUND VASES
A PAIR OF PARIS PORCELAIN PLATINUM-GROUND VASES

CIRCA 1878

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A PAIR OF PARIS PORCELAIN PLATINUM-GROUND VASES
CIRCA 1878
In the Japonism taste, each finely painted with either two colorfully plumed birds or with two red cardinals perched among large blooming cacti, the reverse with a single cactus issuing either a large pink or a large yellow blossom, the rims enriched in gilt with black tracery
13½ (34.4 cm.) high (2)

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For similar examples marked for the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle see, Christie's, New York, 14 & 15 April 2011, lot 428.

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