Sale 9690
New York
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14 - 15 February 2001
Price realised
USD 1,880
Estimate
A GERMAN BAROQUE BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED BOX Circa 1720 The domed rectangular hinged lid decorated with courtly turbaned figures, one holding a bird-of-prey the other a boy and arrow-filled quiver, standing before a garden wall with a pagoda landscape beyond, enclosing a red-japanned interior with a engraved and punched-brass lockplate, the waisted case over an outstepped molded base 4in. (10cm.) high, 12in. (30.5cm.) wide, 9in. (23cm.) deep
Provenance
Mrs. Talbot J. Taylor, Versailles, sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 29-30 January 1937, lot 65.
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