Sale 6607
London
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8 July 2002
Price realised
GBP 3,585
Estimate
A Meissen Kakiemon octagonal two-handled cup and saucer Circa 1728, blue enamel crossed swords marks, wheel engraved Japanese Palace inventory number N=345-/W, Dreher's .. to cup Painted with the 'Quail' pattern, the two birds between a flowering plant and a flowering prunus tree, the cup with reeded ear-shaped handles, brown line rims
Provenance
With M & G. Segal, Basle, 1975
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(Left, detail of the base of the cup)
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