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Premier Auction - Session II - March 25, 2023

Sat, Mar 25, 2023 09:00AM EDT
Lot 1005

Chinese Export Tureen with Prince of Wales Motif

Estimate: $600 - $900

Bid Increments

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$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
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$3,000 $250
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$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

18th century, with stylized finial and three-feathered relief mask handles, body with underglaze blue design of sea side scene on both sides, lid with unusual floral pattern, 10-5/8 x 13-5/8 x 8-7/8 in.

Note: Near example featured in Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum, by Rose Kerr and William Robert Sargeant, 2012, item 50 : Tureen and Stand, 1770-1790, with the provenance of AntikWest, Göteborg, Sweden.  Published on page 27 in catalog of International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, London, June 14-17, 1991. 

Condition

with later attached flower frog with floral putty, anomalies, firing cracks, glaze voids, and pinholes, both masks with chipping, surface accretion/residue, wear to base

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