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PROPERTY FROM THE SOWELL COLLECTION

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A VERY LARGE PAIR OF PEACOCKS
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Standing in mirror image on pierced
rockwork growing fowers and sacred fungi,
the plumage brightly enameled

22Ω in. (57 cm.) high (2)

$15,000-25,000

PROVENANCE:

With Cohen & Cohen, London.

LITERATURE:

op. cit., pp. 232, no. 16.8

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A LARGE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE
PUNCHBOWL
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Brightly enameled and gilt, the interior
with a continuous scene of courtiers on
garden terraces around a central medallion
with a comical scene of a servant being
punished, the rim with a wide band of exotic
butterfies, fruit and fowers on a gilt ground

16 in. (40.7 cm.) diameter

$7,000-10,000

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