Sale 5096
London, South Kensington
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28 June 2007
Price realised
GBP 660
Estimate
A pair of Chinese bronze pricket sticks, 16th/17th Century each in columnar form with a quatrefoil scone enclosing the pricket, raised on a shaped column above a larger quatrefoil drip-pan above a key-fret decorated cylindrical section, supported on three splayed ruyi-sceptre shaped feet raised on a stepped circular ring -- max. 10 9/16in. (26.8cm.) high. (2)
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