Sale 8201
New York, East
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19 January 1999
Price realised
USD 690
Estimate
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED HCHST STYLE CENTERPIECE 19th century, spurious puce crowned wheel mark The neu ozier-moulded bowl painted with pastoral vignettes and scattered flower sprays, mounted with a pierced gallery and raised on a circular scroll foot 8in. (22.2cm.) diam.
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