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The silver mounts are stamped with Dutch maker's marks for M. Hackinberg-Middleburg (1853-1884).
THE PORCELAIN KANGXI, THE SILVER 19TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLES
the porcelain kangxi, the silver 19th century
Each painted around the bulbous body in a pale cobalt blue with scholars' utensils and archaistic vases with flowering lotus and peony, the floral trellis-band at the shoulder dividing the long slim neck freely decorated with the Eight Precious Things, below a bulbous section at the rim partly covered with a silver stopper, chain and loose ring at shoulder
13¾ in. (35 cm.) high (2)
the porcelain kangxi, the silver 19th century
Each painted around the bulbous body in a pale cobalt blue with scholars' utensils and archaistic vases with flowering lotus and peony, the floral trellis-band at the shoulder dividing the long slim neck freely decorated with the Eight Precious Things, below a bulbous section at the rim partly covered with a silver stopper, chain and loose ring at shoulder
13¾ in. (35 cm.) high (2)