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    Italian Ceramic Art 1400-1900

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    22 April 2008

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    • A DERUTA ARMORIAL EWER AND BAS
    Lot 45

    A DERUTA ARMORIAL EWER AND BASIN

    CIRCA 1640

    Price realised

    GBP 5,000

    Estimate

    GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000

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    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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