• 500 Years: Decorative Arts Eur auction at Christies

    Sale 2360

    500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets

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    23 November 2010

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    Lot 287

    A VIENNA STYLE (FRANZ DÖRFL) PORCELAIN VASE, 'WALDESGEHEIMNISS'

    LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE MONOGRAMMED SHIELD MARK, PUCE 1986, SIGNED F. TENNER

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    USD 6,250

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    USD 5,000 - USD 7,000

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    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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