Discovery
Description:
Two Enameled Items, China, possibly 19th century, including a large bowl with wide rim, dia. 16 1/4; and a pressed garlic-shape bottle with long narrow neck and a bell-shape cover with a gilt knob, ht. 14 3/4 in.
Estimate $800-1,200
The bowl broken in half and repaired with metal joints; the covered bottle with cracks on neck, chips to rim, an unglazed clay on surface, the tip of the gilt knob of the cover partly chipped away.
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