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  • Sugar Bowl And Lid (USA), 1825–50

    Ovoid body on spreading foot, with bead edging and fret band; two scrolled handles. Cover in concave tiers, with figure of standing Chinese holding a bamboo staff. Engraved on one…

  • Sugar Bowl And Lid (Italy), ca. 1800

    Four-lobed oval plan with curved walls. Four-lobed dome cover with knob shape of a hip and leaf. Blue-gray body. Bowl and cover each decorated with two oval medallions with polychromed…

  • Clock (Germany), 1730–32

    Lantern-shaped clock case raising from tall concave sockle on roughly square base. Two satyrs seated on scrolls support arched cornice above which a ribbed, scrolled and wrinkled top raises, crowned…

  • Clock (France), 1807–10

    Flat, trapezoidal base with four arches along bottom front edge. Base supports a stage-like interior surmounted by semi-circular pediment inset with clock. Interior features a large door back center decorated…

  • Sugar Bowl And Lid (England), 1726–27

    (a) Hemispherical bowl on molded, domed foot, the rim reinforced. (b) Domed cover with ring to serve as handle or as foot ring. Engraved on side: unicorn’s head.

  • Sugar Bowl And Lid (USA), 1958

    Eggshell-colored (a) softly rounded flaring sugar bowl with edge cut in boat-like shape above inner rim. (b) lid: culminating in plain, truncated knob.

  • Clock with Figure of Pu T’ ai Ho-Shang (Chinese god of contentment) Clock, 1740–45

    A white porcelain figure of Pu T’ai Ho-Shang on a gilt bronze four legged base. On top of the figures head holds a clock covered in small white flowers.

  • Clock (Scotland), ca. 1890

    Skeleton clock (a) on oval brown wooden base (d) with four bun feet and ivory (?) and wood decorative panel showing bird amidst foliage. Circular brass chapter ring with hours…

  • Clock (France), ca. 1920

    A gold and white striped rectangular clock with a circle face in the middle. The base has a wider foot and small knob on the top. Around the face there…

  • Clock, 1901–50

    a)Traveling alarm clock, rectangular in plan, gilded bronze with bevelled glass panels, top and sides, exposing works. Handle on top. Horizontal banding of beading and acanthus leaves, female sheathed figures…

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