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                                                                                                  A LARGE PAIR OF TURQUOISE GROUND
                                                                                                  VASES
                                                                                                  19TH CENTURY

                                                                                                  With cartouches depicting fgures at various
                                                                                                  leisure pursuits in the famille verte palette,
                                                                                                  amid scattered applied fowers and leaves, all
                                                                                                  on a turquoise stippled ground

                                                                                                  19 in. (48.2 cm.) high       (2)

                                                                                                  $8,000-12,000

                                                                                                  PROPERTY FROM THE SOWELL COLLECTION

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                                                                                                  A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE PEACOCKS
                                                                                                  19TH CENTURY

                                                                                                  Each enameled in green with black beak and
                                                                                                  legs, his turquoise plumage over colorful
                                                                                                  tailfeathers, on rocks with appliqué fowers

                                                                                                  14Ω in. (37 cm.) high        (2)

                                                                                                  $6,000-9,000

                                                                                                  LITERATURE:

                                                                                                  op. cit., pp. 231, no. 16.7

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