Sale 7658
London
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22 April 2008
Price realised
GBP 5,000
Estimate
A DERUTA ARMORIAL EWER AND BASIN CIRCA 1640 The ewer with a blue fish handle, the front with a coat of arms within an oval cartouche flanked by ochre sheaves of wheat against a ground of blue foliage and flowers with running hares below, the central arms of the basin within a circular cartouche against a similar ground, within lobed rims (ewer with two chips to footrim, bowl with very slight cracks from footrim) The ewer 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high; the basin 14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) wide (at widest point)
Provenance
Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Bt., DSO, MC, TD, Somerhill, Kent By descent to Lady d'Avigdor-Goldsmid and Mr and Mrs James Teacher, sale Sotheby's 24th June 1981, lot 449.
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