Lot 325 , A pair of small Chinese yellow ground square baluster vases, c.1880, height 17cm

A pair of small Chinese yellow ground square baluster vases, c.1880, height 17cm
Estimate £150-200

One vase tiny chips to three enamelld corners at the base, other vase chips and cracks to one side of base, clearly visible, both with wear to gilding.

Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1910-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke lived in Carmarthenshire, Wales and was an avid collector of European & Asian works of art and an author of the History of Llandovery. He was collecting from the 1940s to the 1980s.


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Sold for £360