TWO CHINESE IMARI BORDALUES

FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

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TWO CHINESE IMARI BORDALUES
FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
Similarly decorated with lilies, peony, lotus and chrysanthemum growing on curling blue stems
8¼ and 9in. (20.9 and 22.8cm.) long (2)

Lot Essay

Explaining this form D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 229, writes of "Louis Bourdaloue (1632-1704)...'one of the greatest orators that France has produced'...But the length of (his) sermons...meant that society ladies carried these vessels to church with them"

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