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The Art of Entertaining - March 21, 2024

Thu, Mar 21, 2024 10:00AM EDT
Lot 39

Assembled Group of Chinese and Japanese Silver and Silver-Gilt Condiment Wares

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Sold for

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$200 $50
$500 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000

Variously marked.

Comprising:

Twenty-four pagoda form casters

Seven boat form casters

Six shell form cellars

Four lantern form casters, two with stands

A pair of pail form casters

A well form caster and cellar set

A pagoda form caster

Together with:

Four basket form casters and a mustard pot, apparently unmarked

The well 3 1/4 x 3 x 2 1/8 in., 40.3 oz. approx. gross weight, (49 pcs).

 

Condition

Wear consistent with use. Some oxidation and scattered bruises. Some of the casters do not open. A few pagodas with bent spires. Otherwise in good condition.

Notwithstanding this report or any discussion concerning condition of a lot, all lots are offered and sold "as is" in accordance with our conditions of sale.

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Sold Christie's New York, August 23, 2017, Lot 277.

The Collection of Jordan Saunders.