Sale 8497
New York, East
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19 March 2001
Price realised
USD 1,410
Estimate
A RARE BLANC DE CHINE MARCO POLO CENSER Early 18th Century The octagonal form raised on scrolling legs, each panel molded with panels of florettes and geometric scrolling, mounted at the rim with four loop handles, the domed cover with a pierced foliate design and molded with eight floral knops surrounding the central floral finial, set onto an octagonal dish raised on bracket feet and molded with similar floral panels below corner knops, the interior incised with a blossoming flower surrounded by a scrolling band 5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high
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Literature
For a similar piece see P.J. Donnelly, Blanc De Chine, plate 16.
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