Sale 8377
London, South Kensington
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13 May 1999
Price realised
GBP 115
Estimate
A Chinese teadust glazed bottle vase with lobed garlic neck and moulded guei dragon around the slender tapering neck -- 13in. (33cm.) high; and a further vase with everted rim and slightly spreading foot, with twin pierced foliate handles and carved horizontal bands around the neck -- 9in. (24.8cm.) high, seal mark to base, 19th Century. (2)
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The designer and decorator shows us around his Santa Monica HQ, and enthuses over the forthcoming Rooms as Portraits auctions in London and New York
Chinese Works of Art specialist Olivia Hamilton reckons this pair of superb sculptures — around 1,300 years old — are ‘the finest I've seen come up for sale‘