Sale 2435
New York
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14 - 15 April 2011
Price realised
USD 10,625
Estimate
A PAIR OF PARIS PORCELAIN PLATINUM GROUND POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS CIRCA 1880, THE PAINTING LIKELY BY NARCISSE VIVIEN Each oviform vase with pierced cover, finely painted in the Japonism taste with either cardinals or parakeets perched among flowering branches, the rims and finial enriched in black tracery 16½ in. (41.8 cm.) high (4)
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