Sale 1365
New York
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23 April 2004
Price realised
USD 1,434
Estimate
A large Japanese Satsuma earthenware vase Meiji period, 19th Century The pierced hardwood domed cover above a waisted neck flanked by figures suspending tassels, the tapering hexagonal body parcel-gilt and decorated in polychrome enamels with various immortals over a clear crackled glaze, supported on Buddhistic lion monopodiae above a pierced hardwood circular base Overall: 40 in. (101.6 cm.) high
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