Sale 2504
New York
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15 April 2011
Price realised
USD 10,625
Estimate
A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER TRIPOD TABLES CIRCA 1820, POSSIBLY CANTON Each decorated with flowers and landscape scenes, the canted-rectangular top on a turned baluster column and concave sided plinth, with paw feet, the decoration refreshed 26 in. (66 cm.) high; 14¼ in. (36.5 cm.) wide; 10½ in. (26.5 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 November 2001, lot 268.
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