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Lot 116
  • 116

A near pair of Chantilly cylindrical gilt-metal mounted pomade pots and covers, circa 1735-40

Estimate
3,500 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • porcelain
  • 9.5cm., 3 3/4 in. high
painted in Kakiemon style with flowering plants issuing from blue and yellow rockwork, the shallow domed covers with turquoise and iron-red knops, hunting horn marks in iron-red

Condition

One cover has been cracked right through with minor losses along edge of crack. The same cover with haircrack to rim, approx.1in. length. The knops are different colours.
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