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LOT 1884
Green Stone Flower Bowl with Rubies
20TH CENTURY A.D.
7 1/4 in. (995 grams, 18.5 cm wide).
Hexafoil bowl with a band of inset blue teardrop inlays on an inlaid wire stem; below, a flower with inset rubies and other inlays, inlaid wire frame. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Property of a South West London gentleman.
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