Sale 13753
New York
|
15 September 2016
Price realised
USD 2,750
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE BOWL 18TH CENTURY The exterior is decorated with alternating large and small gilt-decorated shaped panels enclosing riverscape scenes reserved on a stippled ground. The interior is decorated with a central roundel containing pomegranates and finger citron within a border of archaistic dragons reserved on a diaper ground beneath a broad basket-weave border. 11 3/8 in. (28.8 cm.) diam.
Provenance
William Mitchell Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1922.
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