Sale 2504
New York
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15 April 2011
Price realised
USD 3,250
Estimate
A PAIR OF FRENCH (LOCRE) PORCELAIN CAMPANA FORM VASES CIRCA 1830, BLUE CROSSED TORCH MARKS Each with one side painted in sepia with pastoral vignettes, the other a polychrome scene depicting ships at harbor or at sail, flanked by upright scroll handles, the lower body and socle enriched with stiff-leaf tips and foliate scrolls 10¾ in. (27.2 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 12 & 14 September 2000, lot 154 [CHECK].
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