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    A Taste for Luxury: Two Great Houses from America's Gilded Age

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    • A PAIR OF MOTTAHEDEH PORCELAIN
    Lot 1161

    A PAIR OF MOTTAHEDEH PORCELAIN MODELS OF BITTERNS

    DATED 1979, BROWN SCRIPT MARKS, NOS. 5 AND 6 OF A SERIES OF 100 BASED ON EXAMPLES IN THE NELSON ROCKEFELLER COLLECTION

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    USD 1,062

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    USD 800 - USD 1,200

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    A PAIR OF MOTTAHEDEH PORCELAIN MODELS OF BITTERNS
    DATED 1979, BROWN SCRIPT MARKS, NOS. 5 AND 6 OF A SERIES OF 100 BASED ON EXAMPLES IN THE NELSON ROCKEFELLER COLLECTION
    After Meissen originals, each heron naturalistically modeled, its feathers picked out in black and brown, standing beside a cluster of bulrushes, on a mound base
    14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high (2)

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