Invoice from Duveen Brothers to H.C. Frick, 18 March 1915 [page 3 of 8]

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21 OLD BOND STREET, LONDON 20 PLACE VENDOME, PARIS

720 Fifth Avenue New York H. C. Frick, Esq. #3 Duveen Brothers

B-5 6 7 8 (con) CORRIDOR HALL (con) Forward 364,000-00 Cobalt, broken up into an arbitrary pattern known as "cracked ice", upon which is picked out in the pure white of the glazed surface a graceful decoration of so-called hawthorn blossoms, being actually the flower of the mei or winter-blooming plum-tree. K'ANG HSI Ht. 10" 80,000-00 LIBRARY 732 CYLINDRICAL VASE with metallic lip. With a bold design of yellow and rose lotus, with deep green scroll leaves reserved in the black enamel ground; at base a border of rose and yellow petals, and dark-green sweet flag leaves with rose stems on the neck. K'ANG HSI Ht. 22" 75,000-00 784 BLACK HAWTHORN BEAKER VASE. With leafless, rosy-limbed, white prunus-trees spreading upward to the mouth; below are red and green rocks. A flock of yellow finches is seen among the branches, the whole in reserve on a lustrous black ground. K'ANG HSI Ht. 26 1/2" 85,000-00 1224 TALL BLACK ENAMEL BEAKER. With aubergine tree trunks from the base up, bearing branches of white prunus flowers. At the base, rocks and foliage in green and on the neck yellow birds perched and flying. K'ANG HSI Ht. 27" 75,000-00 Forward 679,000-00

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