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A Large Chinese Silver-Gilt Filigree, Enamel, and Hardstone Lantern-Form Spice Container, 20th Century

Estimate

10,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

the base formed as three peacocks, their tails rising to form the stem with green hardstone "eyes" to the feathers, the lobed chamber with multicolored floral enamel, openwork ribs, the cover with enameled flowers and stylized bird ribs below a peacock on a flower, with red hardstone details, hung with three tiers of purple hardstone drops, marked underneath Silver


height 14 1/2 in.

36.9 cm

A similar Chinese filigree lantern-form spice container was sold from the Halpern Judaica Collection, Part 1, Sotheby's New York, 15 December 2022, lot 94.