Sale 2360
New York
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23 November 2010
Price realised
USD 6,250
Estimate
A VIENNA STYLE (FRANZ DÖRFL) PORCELAIN VASE, 'WALDESGEHEIMNISS' LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE MONOGRAMMED SHIELD MARK, PUCE 1986, SIGNED F. TENNER Painted in the Romantic style with a continuous scene of maidens conspiring, titled in German 'The Forest Secret,' flanked by angular bracket handles suspending laurel swags, the neck and foot molded and enriched with spiral flutes 22 in. (55.9 cm.) high
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