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    Sale 5687

    Nineteenth Century Works of Art

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    31 October 1996

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    Lot 60

    A pair of ormolu-mounted octagonal Arita vases

    Price realised

    GBP 13,800

    Estimate

    GBP 8,000 - GBP 12,000

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    A pair of ormolu-mounted octagonal Arita vases
    Each with foliate-cast ormolu collar above a waisted neck and tapering body, flanked to each side by a foliate-cast handle, decorated in gilt, iron-red and various coloured enamels on underglaze blue, with chrynsanthemums and flowering hanging branches in four shaped panels surrounded by the ground of lozenges with flowerheads and geometric pattern, the neck, the shoulder and the lower body with a band of flowers and foliage, on stepped ormolu foot, each base with restoration to the porcelain, The porcelain 17th Century, the mounts 19th Century
    21in. (53.3cm.) high (2)

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    Lot Essay

    These are a variation on the Kakiemon palette, and for a similar example see Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 52, and illustrated Soame Jenyns Japanese Porcelain, plate 29B.

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