Sale 3704
New York
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26 January 2015
Price realised
USD 11,875
Estimate
A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BISCUIT-GLAZED PARROTS THE PORCELAIN KANGXI PERIOD Each modeled in mirror image, its feathers picked out in black, on a rocky mound splashed in green, yellow and brown, on a pierced rocaille base 9 ½ in. (24 cm.) high
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