Sale 2738
New York
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24 October 2013
Price realised
USD 8,125
Estimate
AN ASSEMBLED PAIR OF REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE VASES THE PORCELAIN JAPANESE, 17TH CENTURY, THE DECORATION AND ORMOLU MOUNTS FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY Each decorated in the Kakiemon taste with exotic birds among foliage and auspicious objects, with cast dragon handles 6¾ in. (17 cm.) high, the taller (2)
Provenance
Baron Eugene de Rothschild; Christie's, London, 27 June 1974, lot 25. The Keck Collection, La Lanterne, Bel Aire, California; Sotheby's, New York, 5-6 December 1991, lot 185.
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