Sale 7431
London
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6 November 2007
Price realised
GBP 2,500
Estimate
AN UNUSUAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL DOUBLE VASE 19TH/20TH CENTURY Shaped as two conjoined vases, each with a circular body, a cylindrical neck and a rectangular foot, enamelled on either side on the principal vase with a deer travelling in a lakeside landscape holding a lingzhi spray in its mouth, looking back towards a crane in flight, and on the secondary vase a pair of magpies on flowering peach branches, the neck with a band of stiff leaves, the sides with blue kuilong scrolls, all on a turquoise ground 14 in. (37 cm.) high
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