Sale 2339
New York
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16 - 17 September 2010
Price realised
USD 10,625
Estimate
A BLANC-DE-CHINE WINE CUP AND EWER AND COVER 18TH CENTURY The wine cup thickly potted and of elegant form, inscribed on one side with a poetic inscription; the ewer of compressed rounded form raised on a spreading foot and inscribed on one side with a two-line poem within a raised roundel, the body flanked by the gracefully curved handle and spout, the domed cover with knop finial 2 7/16 and 5 5/8 in. (6.2 and 14.3 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
The ewer: A.W. Bahr Collection. Edna Helen Bahr, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 11 December 1959.
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Exhibited
The ewer: Selections from the William and Winifred Corbin Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Portland Art Museum, 1 - 29 March 1964, no. 48.
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