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LOT 2046
Khmer Brown Glazed Elephant Lime Pot
19TH-20TH CENTURY A.D.
5 in. (597 grams, 12.6 cm).
Bulbous in profile with four stub legs and broad flared mouth, applied detailing of an elephant's head with extended trunk and vents to the ears, lateral saddle detailing forming the handles, looped tail. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent.
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The Latin phrase is taken from the work of the 1st century AD poet Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satires V 151-3: vive memor leti ! fugit hora; hoc quod loquor inde est (Live mindful of death. Time is fleeting [and] every word I speak is [borrowed] from it.).
