Sale 1404
New York
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8 - 9 September 2004
Price realised
USD 4,182
Estimate
A CANTON ENAMEL EWER AND BASIN, CIRCA 1745, the ewer as a nautilus shell, with scroll handle and pedestal foot, the basin as a scallop shell on three toupie feet 10¼ in. (26 cm.) and 15 in. (38.1 cm.), respectively (2)
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Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
A guide to the poet, painter and sculptor described as ‘one of the most innovative and inexhaustible artists of his time’
We explore the artist’s lifelong obsession with the game, and the pipe he presented to one victorious opponent