Sale 6432
London
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9 July 2001
Price realised
GBP 3,760
Estimate
A Worcester blue and white small teapot and cover Circa 1758, painter's mark to base and cover Of squat globular form, with curved spout and loop handle, each side painted with an oriental lady and an attendant flanked by a prunus tree, boulders and grasses, with a bird in flight above beneath a diaper and flowerhead panelled border, the cover with similar boulders and grasses (slight chipping to spout and small chip to interior flange of cover) 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high
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Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR
The library of the novelist included a translation by a brilliant young mathematician that foresaw the age of computing
Offered in the ONE sale on 10 July in New York, Annie epitomises the genre that made the artist one of the most celebrated of his generation