A PAIR OF GILT-PEWTER TEA CADDIES AND COVERS QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Description

bronze

each of barbed hexagonal section tapering towards the base, each panel parcel gilt and incised with birds among leafing and flowering boughs, the fitted covers surmounted by glass knops simulating jadeite, fitted wood stands (6)

Provenance

Gump's, San Francisco, 1950s.
San Francisco Private Collection.