Lot #240 - A pair of 'famille-rose' bowls
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Auction House:Sotheby's Australia
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Sale Name:Property From The Collection of Dame Nellie Melba GBE & Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design
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Sale Date:31 Mar 2015 ~ 6pm Session 1: Lots 1 - 162
01 Apr 2015 ~ 6pm Session 2: Lots 163 - 461 -
Lot #:240
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Lot Description:A pair of 'famille-rose' bowls
each with steeply rounded sides painted with boys carrying various objects in a continuous garden scene with two iron-red bats in flight overhead, a floral border around the gilt rim and a blue band of key-fret on the foot, the base inscribed in iron-red with a four-character mark reading 'the qilin's footprints are a sign of prosperity', box (2)
9 cm diameter -
Estimate:A$1,500 - 2,500
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Realised Price:
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Category:Oriental
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