Sale 1018
Melbourne
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28 - 29 May 2001
Price realised
AUD 7,638
Estimate
A BOW CANDLESTICK GROUP OF TWO MUSICIANS Circa 1765 Wearing flowered and gilt striped clothes, playing the hurdy gurdy and double bass seated before a flowering tree supporting underglaze blue and gilt scrolling foliate condle-nozzles on a high-footed scroll-moulded base enriched in turquoise, puce and gilding and applied with coloured flowers, iron-red anchor and dagger mark, (one drip-pan restored, minor chips and restorations) 24.5 cm. (9 1/2 in.) high See illustration
Provenance
The H.J. Joel Collection, Christie's King Street, 17 April 1980, Lot 1
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