Sale 2840
New York
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9 June 2014
Price realised
USD 17,500
Estimate
A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND TWO COVERS LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE AND BROWN TRIANGLE AND DOT MARKS Each of baluster form, finely painted in the manner of Watteau with Commedia dell'Arte scenes of Pierrot or Harlequin entertaining Columbine, within a gilt scroll cartouche with monkeys at the shoulder, the reverse with a riverside landscape, flanked by putti handles 26½ in. (67.4 cm.) high (4)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 October 2008, lot 123.
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