Sale 8512
New York, Park Avenue
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30 - 31 October 1996
Price realised
USD 5,750
Estimate
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN EWERS Each celadon-glazed baluster jar decorated with flying birds, set with scrolling foliate-cast spout and floral and berried foliate handle on assymetrical scrolling base, lacking berried scroll at the top of handles 11 1/2in (29cm.) high, 8in. (20cm.) wide (2)
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The designer and decorator shows us around his Santa Monica HQ, and enthuses over the forthcoming Rooms as Portraits auctions in London and New York
Chinese Works of Art specialist Olivia Hamilton reckons this pair of superb sculptures — around 1,300 years old — are ‘the finest I've seen come up for sale‘