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LOT 0437

Large Chinese Decorated Porcelain Bowl Pair

EARLY 19TH CENTURY A.D.

14 in. (4.9 kg total, 35.5 cm wide).

A pair of enamelled export porcelain bowls, decorated with a polychrome frieze of scalloped cartouches displaying birds perched amongst fruiting vegetation, insects in the field, repeated around the neck with flowering plants alternating with cartouches depicting birds amongst vegetation; interior with gilt roundel to base with floral spray, three plants around. [2]

Provenance

From a UK private collection.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11717-198623.

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LOT 0437

Large Chinese Decorated Porcelain Bowl Pair

Estimate £2,000 - 3,000€2,320 - 3,480 (for guidance only)$2,700 - 4,050 (for guidance only)

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