Sale 2360
New York
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23 November 2010
Price realised
USD 6,875
Estimate
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN GOURD-SHAPED COFFEE-POT AND COVER CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK The stalk forming the finial, the body striped in green and yellow, molded with three large leaves and a bud, picked out in dark green and edged in red and yellow and issuing from the vine handle 9¼ in. (23.4 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
The Estate of Dorothy Hirschon; Sotheby's, New York, 26 September 1998, lot 303.
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A castor in the form of a gourd, with similar striped decoration was sold Sotheby's, New York, 2 November 1967, lot 219.
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