Sale 8512
New York, Park Avenue
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30 - 31 October 1996
Price realised
USD 10,925
Estimate
A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE CRACKLE-GLAZED PORCELAIN VASE Of baluster form, mounted with a porcelain Chinese head on spiral and scrolled waist collar, with foliate and bullrush-cast scrolling handles on a pierced foliate scrolled and rockwork base 20½in. (52cm.) high, 14in. (35.5cm.) wide
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The mounts on this vase, with exaggerated scroll handles cast with bullrushes, relate to a Louis XV example sold in these Rooms, 30 October 1993, lot 290.
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