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Auction House:Gibson's Auctioneers & ValuersNumber of lots recorded:556
Sale Title:The Spring Auction Series, Part ILots with images:556
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:365
Date:27-Nov-2022
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A George III satinwood and sabicu bonheur-du-jour, attributed to George Simson, circa 1790, with a gallery back above an open compartment and drawer, the extended lower section with a fall front fitted with an arrangement of compartments, drawers and a leather tooled writing surface, finely veneered throughout with fiddleback panels, contrasting cross banding, blonde and ebony stringing, and raised on tapering square section legs with petite brass casters, 120 cm high, 70 cm wide, 45.5 cm deep. Provenance:…
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A large gilded and painted wall mirror, French, early 19th century, with an elaborate vegetal frame with draped and pendant husks, the crest centred with a lion mask issuing flora, with bevelled and distressed plate, 140 x 90 cm (approx)
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A large grey silk velvet buttoned ottoman, with fringe and rope trim details, 44 cm high, 118 cm wide, 77 cm deep. Provenance: Jean-Pierre Heurteau, Melbourne
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Two Victorian mahogany and satinwood framed wingback chairs, circa 1890, with square back cresting rails and downswept arms with satinwood stringing and inlaid details, raised on tapering square section legs with casters, upholstered in green damask
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A Victorian papier mache tray on a later walnut stand, circa 1850, the serpentine shaped tray with floral arabesques with gilt highlights supported on a George I style cabriole leg base with anthemion carved knees, 46 cm high, 81 cm wide, 63 cm deep. Provenance: The Estate of Andree Harkness. Property from the collection of Dame Nellie Melba GBE, Smith & Singer Australia, March 2015, lot 159
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A collection of seven antique glass dump paperweights, English early 19th century, of varying shapes and sizes, five with internal flowers and two featuring controlled bubble motifs, 19.5 cm high and smaller
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A Louis XVI style wrought iron wall mirror, 18th century, the crest with a central basket issuing flowers and flanked by leaf embellished scrollwork, 160 cm high 86 cm wide. Provenance: Mossgreen. An important private collection, 14 September 2014, lot 366
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A large teak bench seat together with a stool, the three seater weathered bench of lattice design by park Lane Lister teak, Adelaide, together with a small side table of similar design, by Charles Verey, East Sussex, England, labels to both, Bench 240 cm wide
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A metamorphic walnut writing chest, late 19th century, with mahogany sides, the hinged piano top opening to a compartment with a painted panel depicting birds amongst blossom, four long drawers with drop brass handles above a plinth base, with canted corners and porcelain casters, 95 cm high, 77 cm wide, 48 cm deep
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Three Georgian en grisaille silk ground embroideries, 18th century, finely worked cottage and landscape scenes utilising black thread and pulled thread work, in antique frames, 25 cm x 28 cm largest framed image
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A collection of antique damask linen from the Estate of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe, 19th century, approximate eighty items of various sizes including large tablecloths with decorative floral and bird motifs, together with an assortment of smaller cloths and napkins. Provenance: The Duchess. Precious objects and property from the Estate of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe. Sotheby's 27 May 2015, London, lot 399 for 6875 Gbp
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A pair of cut crystal decanters and a pair of French wedding goblets, mid 19th century and later, the spirit decanters with faceted globular stoppers and silver plate wine labels, the oversize pair of Louis Philippe era hand blown goblets with lightly etched details to the bowls, goblets 23 cm high, 13.5 cm diameter
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French school, 19th century, Vases of Flowers, two works, both floral arrangements in vases upon consoles, painted in gouache and gilt, and housed in ornate gilded frames, handwritten labels to each 'Vase of flowers' by Le Fevre, Paris, verso, 32 x 26.5 cm framed
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A pair of mahogany shield back hall chairs, 18th century, each with a polychrome armorial roundel, with bow front seats and raised on square section legs, with spade feet to the front, 94 cm high. Provenance: The contents of musk farm, Mossgreen 1 June 2014, lot 367
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A pair of verde antico marble cassolette table lamps with shades, in the Louis XVI manner with gilt bronze trims and ram's head handles, with electrical fittings and trimmed pleated silk shades, 83 cm high
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Two similar reticulated brass floor lamps, with arms of adjustable height, a teal pleated shade to one lamp, white to the other, the largest lamp 164 cm high
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A Louis XV style carved and painted salon canape, 19th century, the frame painted in muted celadon colours with carved details picked out in gilt, lavishly upholstered in antique style dusky pink floral silk and accompanied by two matching cushions, 115 cm high, 167 cm wide
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A three piece Coalport/Coalbrookdale pot pourri garniture, circa 1830, profusely encrusted with polychrome flowers and mint green leaves with gilt enrichments, unmarked, bearing BADA label to base of central vase, with a single lid fitting a smaller vase, 21 cm high
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A Regency rosewood sideboard, early 19th century, the mirrored back with a brass gallery edge above a breakfront top and three doors, the central door with a brass wirework grille flanked by doors with bookend veneer panels, embellished with carved corbels, rosettes and raised on a plinth base, 124 cm high, 153 cm wide, 35 cm deep
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Andree Harkness, Siena Cathedral and Siena Cathedral 1995, two photographs, each signed with initial, dated, titled and editioned verso: a 1995 Siena Cathedral, 35 x 26.5 cm (paper size, each). Provenance: Property from the collection of Andree Harkness
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A rare polychrome and carved wood panel of Jacob in the Wilderness, English, late 16th century, featuring the saint seated upon a rock in an exotic woodland setting, 60 cm high, 66 cm wide. Provenance: The Estate of Andree Harkness. Graham Cornall Antiques, Melbourne
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An antique bronze spill vase in the form of a deer foot, 19th century, raised mark of Pk to cartouche to base, 10 cm high 11 cm wide
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Andree Harkness, Socrates, photograph, inscribed verso: Andree Harkness from series 'The divided Line' Socrates, 27.5 x 27 cm. Provenance: Property from the collection of Andree Harkness
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A pair of forged wrought iron pricket sticks, Italian, 17th century, 145 cm high. Provenance: John Dunn Antiques, Melbourne. Mossgreen. An important private collection, 14 September 2014, lot 401
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A rosewood banjo barometer, thermometer and hydrometer by D. Fagioli & Son, England, circa 1860, with mother of pearl inlay and a silvered engraved dial, 105 cm high
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A collection of five silver bullion embroidered silk cushions, 18th century, four cushions featuring mirror image urn and arabesque floral designs in raised metallic and coloured silk thread on a cream silk ground and embellished with a range of trims, one cushion featuring a meandering grapevine design, 50 x 35 cm and smaller
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An early Victorian sterling silver coffee pot by Edward, Edward Junior, John & William Barnard, London 1838, the lobed coffee pot with a domed lid with fruiting finial, and a double scroll handle embellished throughout with engraved foliate cartouches and bearing a crest with Latin inscription, 'Alta Pete' (Aim high), hallmarked underside, 28 cm high, 925gms
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A fine pair of George III sterling silver armorial boat tureens, by John Parker I & Edward Wakelin, London 1766, the heavy gauge tureens with anthemion terminals, scroll feet and twin handles, with contemporary crests and initialled with a baronial coronet, hallmarked underside, 8.5 cm high, 23 cm wide, 10.5 cm deep, 1175gms
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A five piece sterling silver cruet set together with condiment spoons, London 1910, a ten-sided flute and thread decorated set comprising two pepper pots, a mustard pot and two salts, with glass liners, a pair of Georgian sterling condiment spoons and a later pair, together with three silver plate novelties, an apple, chestnut and a banana, hallmarked to each element, maker's mark unclear '.&Bs Ltd', 7 cm high, 370gms
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An Austrian reticulated .800 silver dish, Vienna, post 1922, the oval dish with an everted rim pierced with grapevine motifs, with an applied rococo border & Hallmarked within rim with an octagonal toucan mark, city mark, .800 stamp and initials Ro, 5 cm high, 34 cm long, 25 cm wide, 570gms
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A sterling silver coffee pot, Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, London 1912, and a sterling sugar basin and matching cream jug, John Sanderson & Son Ltd, Sheffield 1939, the George I style coffee pot of octagonal profile with a domed lid and an ebonised handle, hallmarked to body, with an octagonal footed sugar basin and cream jug with rolled rims and strap bracket handles, hallmarked below rims, 22 cm high coffee pot, 820gms total weight
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A sterling silver waiter, Searle & Co Ltd, London 1951, the shaped circular waiter with a moulded rim and raised on four double pad feet, crisply hallmarked underside, bearing a contemporary engraved crest, also stamped Searle & Co Ltd, Royal exchange London, 2 cm high, 15 cm diameter approx, 200gms
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Two boxed sets of fish knives and forks, and a boxed set of dinner knives, 19th/20th century, comprising an engraved and bright cut silver plate set, a set by William Drummond & Co. With ivorine handles housed in an oak canteen, together with a set of C. Johnson & Co 'Stainless silversheen' Sheffield dinner knives also with ivorine handles, the largest knives 23.5 cm long
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A George III sterling silver bread basket, probably John Henry Vere & William Lutwyche, London 1763, a shaped oval basket with a broad wire work rim decorated with trailing applied flowers within a bead edge border, an unusual double ribbon twist handle embellished with wheat heads, similar motifs to the bowl enclosing an armorial with the inscription, 'Un Dieu Un Roy' (one God, one King), hallmarked to foot rim, 7 cm high, 36 cm long, 29 cm wide, 920gms
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A Georgian sterling silver warming pot, by Peter & William Bateman London 1810, of neoclassical design with reeded details to rim and foot, a fruitwood handle and finial, with an internal core for housing heated coals, hallmarked underside and to lid rim, 19 cm high, total weight 350gms
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A George III sterling silver bon bon basket, London 1769, a sterling silver toddy ladle, London 1761, together with a sterling silver candle snuffer, Birmingham 1972, the small bon bon basket of trellis design with a Bristol blue liner, hallmarked to base, possible mark (struck twice) for Charles Chesterman I, a shaped toddy ladle with a turned fruitwood handle, hallmarked to bowl, mark of David Mowden, and a candle snuffer with mark of Hampton Utilities, bon bon basket 6 cm high, toddy ladle 37 cm long,…
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An exceptional Russian .875 silver trompe l'oeil bread basket, by Mikhail Ovchinnikov, Moscow 1876, of heavy gauge oval form, with basket weave effect and embellished with a fringed brocade cloth, flanked by a pair of rope twist handles and raised on wirework feet, crisply hallmarked underside with maker's marks in Cyrillic, 6.5 cm high, 38 cm wide, 26 cm deep, 1025gms
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A George III sterling silver covered tankard, 1785 London, with a George III incuse mark and bearing 'Hb' maker's mark, the baluster tankard with a girdle to the body, a pierced thumbpiece and a bold double scroll handle, gilded to the interior with inscription to the rim perimeter, "To John St Maur Ramsden on his 21st birthday April 26. 1923. Given by the staff, indoor and outdoor servants, at Bulstrode, Muncaster & Turweston", with engraved shield crest to the body, hallmarked to interior of lid and…
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A George III sterling silver covered tankard, by Peter, Ann & William Bateman, London 1803, of baluster form with a double scroll handle and a pierced scroll work thumbpiece, raised on a waisted spreading foot, hallmarked under lid and to the base, 22 cm high, 735gms
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A George III sterling silver tankard, by William Skeen, London 1762, the baluster tankard with a double scroll handle and an applied leafy thumbpiece, bearing an engraved crest and inscription 'Virtute Ter Securus', hallmarked underside, 12.5 cm high, 325gms
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A George III two branch neoclassical sterling silver candelabrum, Edward Fernell, London, 1793, of elegant design with threadwork, stiff leaf decorations to the sconces and tapering stem above a lobed and domed foot with a running grapevine border, convertable, with detachable wax pans and bearing an armorial of a lion's head upon a crenellated tower, hallmarked to foot rim and other elements, weighted, 44 cm high, total weight 2365gms
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0A silver plate spirit kettle, stand and burner by W Fairbairn, London, early 20th century, ornately pierced, embossed and with applied decorations, having insulators to the handle and a flower modelled finial to the lid, 64 cm high
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Two Edwardian sterling silver cigar cases, Thomas Bishton and John rose, Birmingham, 1904 and 1908, A three cigar and a four cigar case both with floral engraved decoration, the larger with an engraved inscription, 'Capt, J.S Harris, Maesteg', both hallmarked to the gilt washed interiors, 13 cm wide, 7.5 cm deep, and smaller, 270gms
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A George III sterling silver cake basket, London 1788, apparently without a maker's mark, the octagonal basket with pierced reserves to each panel flanked by engraved and bright cut decorations, a bright cut border within a threaded rim and a conforming thread handle, raised on a deep grille pattern foot rim, hallmarked to edge, 11 cm high, 33 cm wide, 27 cm deep, 610gms
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A George III sterling silver armorial cake basket by Hester Bateman, London 1790, the navette shaped basket having a threaded handle and a scrolling pierced rim with bright cut and prick work enrichments, raised on a pierced foot, initialled below crest to bowl & Hallmarked to body, 11 cm high, 37 cm long, 26 cm wide, 830gms
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A George III sterling silver sauce boat, rubbed marks, London 1765, a fine heavy gauge sauce boat with a double scroll handle with acanthus thumbpiece, gadrooned rims and raised on shell mounted scrolling feet, together with a smaller sauce boat, William suckling Ltd, Birmingham 1926, with a flying handle, hallmarked to both items, the largest boat 12 cm high, total weight of silver 565gms
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A small Victorian sterling silver basket, Thomas Bradbury & Sons, London 1883, the flaring oval bon bon basket with arching lappets, a double bead rim and conforming handle, hallmarked underside, 4.5 cm high, 17 cm wide, 12.5 cm wide, 215gms
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A Queen Anne/George I Britannia silver tankard, early 18th century, of embossed and chased form with floral and acanthus motifs upon a stippled ground, engraved initials to a cartouche, rubbed marks below rim with Britiannia standard, 10 cm high, 190gms
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A Danish sterling silver covered glass ice bucket and two associated canisters by Dansk Guldsmede-Handværk, Copenhagen, 1954-1973, the heavy glass vessels probably by Holmegaard, each with flat silver lids and applied fruiting finials, two with pendant grape handles, stamped Dgh to the lids, sterling and 925S, ice bucket 19.5 cm high
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A pair of Lalique table centrepiece troughs in Festons design, introduced 1939, model 10-3472 featuring scalloped edges with gadroons and designed to be used separately or assembled with additional curved shapes to form a larger centrepiece, cursive etched mark of Lalique France to bases, 5 cm high, 20 cm wide, 10 cm deep
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A comprehensive suite of Waterford Crystal 'Sheila' pattern stemware and a matching set of dessert bowls, Irish made, pattern introduced 1958, comprising approximately 58 pieces including champagne flutes, hock, red and white wine glasses, port/sherry, cordial glasses, together with six footed dessert bowls, with stencil Waterford marks, the largest glass 18 cm high
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A mixed suite of cut crystal and glass wares, 19th to 20th century, comprising Bristol green stem glasses, a water jug, assorted cut crystal wares, Georgian decanters, and three Georgian glasses including a bell shaped opaque spiral twist and a firing glass, the largest decanter 18 cm high
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An early Victorian porcelain five piece tea set, circa 1840, comprising a pedestal teapot and a covered sugar basin with floral finials, a milk jug and two tea cups and saucers, polychrome decorated with Chinese figures and scenes to cartouches upon a patterned pale gold ground, pattern numbers, 217 in red, otherwise unmarked, the teapot 17 cm high
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A Royal Worcester Roanoke tea set, comprising four trios, a sugar bowl, a creamer and two teapots of fluted design with loose posies of flowers, black backstamps underside, the teapots 14 cm high
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A set of twelve Minton & Boyle porcelain soup plates, together with a similar bowl, 1836-1841, polychrome plates with moulded borders, pattern 4237, featuring a colourful bird amidst flowering foliage, four branching floral sprays to the rims, Felspar porcelain M&B backstamp to bases with red pattern numbers, the bowl 27.5 cm diameter, the soup plates 26.5 cm diameter
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A collection of silver plate wine vessels, 20th century, a claret jug of typical tapering form with a silver plate collar and domed lid, and a pair of duck shaped decanters with moulded bodies and curvaceous handles to the backs, unmarked, 29 cm high and smaller
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A collection of Copeland Spode demitasse wares, 20th century, comprising a mixed blue and white Italian demitasse set, a 'Dresden Rose' demi-tasse set for eight, pattern 45741 H with floral designs, together with a blue and white Burleigh milk jug and butter dish with associated stands, backstamps underside, the Dresden rose cups 6 cm high
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An Australian studio earthenware vase in the style of Una Deerbon, of squat baluster profile with moulded grape and vine leaf decoration to the body in modulating teal and chocolate colours, unmarked, 12 cm high
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A collection of Australian earthenware including Melroseware and Remued, comprising six pieces, the largest 26.5 cm high
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A set of davenport porcelain plates and other porcelain wares, early to mid 19th century, the ten plates in flying bird pattern, a Staffordshire type creamer and mug in oriental designs, and a cup and saucer in the manner of Hilditch, impressed anchor mark to plates, the mug and creamer with underglaze sunburst marks, 21.5 cm diameter
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A large Aubusson tapestry rug, in pale olive and cream colours, featuring a central oval medallion encircled by a loose arrangement of flowers, and enclosed by a wide floral and ribbon garland border with spandrel bouquets, 530 x 368.5 cm
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A pair of Queen Anne/George I walnut side chairs, early 18th century, with vasiform splats, drop in balloon seats and cabriole legs terminating in ball and claw feet, both chairs stamped with initials WF, probably journeyman's marks, to rear of seating rails. Provenance: Brian Rolleston, London, May 2008
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A Chinese famille rose ovoid jar, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, painted with flowering sprays, metal mount and hinged cover with clasp; together with a pair of later covered jars, 25.5 cm and 13 cm high
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A Chinese enamelled silver gilt filigree and mesh covered casket, 20th century, the hexagonally lobed sides decorated with pairs of birds on blossoming trees in coloured enamels interspersed with coral and turquoise bosses, the knopped and domed cover with matching decoration, 18.5 cm high
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A Chinese enamelled silver filigree and mesh covered casket, 20th century, the quatrelobed sides decorated with panels of flowering iris and bamboo in coloured enamels on the finely meshed ground between bands of turquoise bosses, the knopped and domed cover with matching decoration, 17 cm high
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An unusual Chinese Duan ink stone, carved in high relief on the upper surface with a flowering prunus tree, one branch extending on to the removable cover of the central recess, the base incised with an inscription, 23 cm long
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A group of cloisonne enamel wares, 20th century, comprising a dish decorated with finger citron, lily and trellis, together with seven napkin rings, the dish 30.5 cm diameter
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