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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Property From The Collection of Dame Nellie Melba GBE & Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design
• Sale Date:
  31 Mar 2015 ~ 6pm Session 1: Lots 1 - 162
  01 Apr 2015 ~ 6pm Session 2: Lots 163 - 461
• Lot #:
  244
• Lot Description:
  A pair of 'famille-rose' 'Balsam pear' bowls and covers, seal marks of Daoguang
  each bowl with steeply rounded sides flaring to the lipped rim, finely enamelled to the exterior with a fruiting and flowering Balsam pear entwined around a spray of bamboo and with a hovering butterfly above, the stems extending over the rim onto the interior, the matching shallow domed cover with raised circular knop doubling as a foot when inverted, similarly painted on the exterior and interior with fruiting vine, bamboo and butterflies, the base of the bowl and the interior of the knop inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue, fitted box (4)
  11 cm diameter
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 40,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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