Sale 2210
New York
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20 October 2009
Price realised
USD 8,750
Estimate
A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE BLUE-GROUND VASES LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY Of campana form, the rim cast with a gadrooned band, flanked by gilt bronze ram's head handles suspending garlands, the lower body with stiff-leaf tips, on a conforming socle cast with a berried wreath and shaped square base 24 in. (60.9 cm.) high (2)
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