Sale 1976
New York
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19 March 2008
Price realised
USD 8,125
Estimate
A LARGE COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED BOTTLE VASE 19TH CENTURY The bulbous body decorated with buddhistic lions of various sizes playing with brocade balls and the ribbons attached to them amidst clouds and flames that continue on the broad neck, all within blue line borders, the base with an apocryphal Jiaqing mark 23 in. (58.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's, London, 12 November 2002, lot 102.
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