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A NEAR PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN CACHE-POTS
Lot 8 PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE (LOTS 7-8)

A NEAR PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN CACHE-POTS

THE PORCELAIN KANGXI PERIOD, CIRCA 1662-1722, THE ORMOLU 19TH CENTURY

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A NEAR PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN CACHE-POTS
THE PORCELAIN KANGXI PERIOD, CIRCA 1662-1722, THE ORMOLU 19TH CENTURY
Each with a blue and white painted vase flanked with pierced male mask terminal handles with gadrooned upper rims on feuille d'eau cast bases
7 in. (18 cm.) high; 9 ¾ in. (25 cm.) wide

Acquired by the philanthropist and collector Ogden Mills for his Parisian residence at 73, rue de Varenne, Paris, inherited by his daughter, Beatrice, the Countess of Granard, and thence by descent.

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Related examples to the male mask terminal handles of the present lot, can be seen mounted to several known examples of 18th century tole cache-pots, such as those sold Christie's, London, 27 October 2015, lot 215.