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    Sale 1327

    Captains and Kilns: European Ceramics, Chinese Export and

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    20 - 21 January 2004

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    • A FAMILLE ROSE 'PARROT ON A PE
    Lot 328

    A FAMILLE ROSE 'PARROT ON A PERCH' VASE

    YONGZHENG PERIOD

    Price realised

    USD 10,755

    Estimate

    USD 3,000 - USD 5,000

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    A FAMILLE ROSE 'PARROT ON A PERCH' VASE
    YONGZHENG PERIOD
    The design sometimes attributed to Cornelis Pronk and also made at Meissen, painted on both sides with a richly coloured parrot holding a sprig of cherry in its talons as he stands chained to his perch, suspended from a melon-form ornament at the neck, within blue band borders
    11¾ in. (29 cm.) high

    Provenance

    Jakob Goldschmidt, Berlin

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    Lot Essay

    A five-piece garniture of this decoration and size was in the F. Gordon Morrill collection, sold Doyle New York, 16 September 2003, lot 25.

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    Pre-Lot Text

    PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK COLLECTOR

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