A PAIR OF JAPANESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID LACQUERED PORCELAIN VASES MOUNTED AS LAMPS
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A PAIR OF JAPANESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID LACQUERED PORCELAIN VASES MOUNTED AS LAMPS

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed20 October 2023

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A PAIR OF JAPANESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID LACQUERED PORCELAIN VASES MOUNTED AS LAMPS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The porcelain bodies each set with colored nacre fragments forming vibrant scenes of pheasants and flowering prunus on a black lacquer ground, below a ruffled rim and atop a flaring black lacquered wood foot, together with two fabric flaring shades
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high, to the rims of the vases

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 18-20 April 1991, lot 274.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.