Sale 13753
New York
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15 September 2016
Price realised
USD 6,875
Estimate
A BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE 19TH CENTURY The compressed body is decorated with a narrow band of archaistic dragon scroll beneath ruyi and key-fret bands on the shoulder and a band of upright leaf tips around the base of the neck, all separated by areas of greyish-white crackle-suffused glaze. 12 1/8 in. (30.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (1822-1904) Collection, New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1879.
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