Lot 14
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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED PORCELAIN EWERS
A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED PORCELAIN EWERS
A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED PORCELAIN EWERS
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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED PORCELAIN EWERS
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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED PORCELAIN EWERS

CIRCA 1840, THE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED PORCELAIN EWERS
CIRCA 1840, THE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY
Each pale blue baluster vase decorated in underglaze blue, copper-red and white enamel with bamboo and flowering chrysanthemum, surmounted by a fluted everted lip cast with acanthus and trailing vines, the eagle-head spiralling handle cast with acanthus, vines and terminating in a dolphin, on a stepped base similarly cast and with Greek key lower foot
9 in. (23 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired by Lord and Lady Weinstock from Partridge Fine Arts, London, 30 September 1988.

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Lot Essay

A closely related pair of vases was bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by George Blumenthal in 1941 (acc. num. 41.190.62, .63). The Blumenthal pair is dated by the Met to the 18th century and the provenance given as ‘possibly Lord Henry Cavendish Bentinck’; the pair was then in the collection of George and Florence Blumenthal (before 1930–32; sale, George Blumenthal collection, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1-2 December 1932, no. 90, pl. XLV; pair sold for 28,000 FF; after 1932–1941).

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