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THE SOWELL COLLECTION
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91 PROVENANCE:
AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE BUDDHIST LIONS With the Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
LITERATURE:
Both seated, with identical form and with the same iron-red character
on their forehead, standing on rectangular bases, one white body and op. cit., pp. 208, no. 15.6
one green
9æ in. (25 cm.) high (2)
$25,000-40,000
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A YELLOW-GLAZED CAT
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Modeled in a recumbent position, with a wooden ftted
stand
10 æ in. (27 cm.) long (2)
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE:
With Cohen & Cohen, London.
Sotheby’s, London, July 2005.
LITERATURE:
op. cit., pp. 158, no. 10.5
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