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    Sale 8029

    19TH CENTURY BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL CERAMICS

    London, South Kensington

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    18 June 1998

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    • A pair of Paris claret-ground
    Lot 55

    A pair of Paris claret-ground part-glazed campana vases

    Price realised

    GBP 2,070

    Estimate

    GBP 2,000 - GBP 2,100

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    A pair of Paris claret-ground part-glazed campana vases
    with stylised dolphin handles, painted with couples in Renaissance dress, one with the gentleman playing a lute, a hound seated by his feet, the other with the couple sheltering in a storm, a hound at their feet, within chased gilt rectangular panels above moulded white and gilt stiff leaves, the stem moulded with an egg and dart turnover section, above a wreath and a square base supported by paw feet, circa 1820 (the handles reduced to the tails) -- 24.2cm. high
    See colour plate 4 (2)

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