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LOT 1782
Large Glazed Blue and White Dish
20TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER
13 1/4 in. (1.13 kg, 33.5 cm wide).
The shallow bowl or dish with pedestal foot, decorated to the interior with a blue floral and geometric scheme, guilloche to the inner rim, brass sheath to the outer rim. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex late Walter Steinberg collection.
Property of a lady, by inheritance.
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