Invoice from Duveen Brothers to H.C. Frick, 18 March 1915 [page 5 of 8]

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21 OLD BOND STREET, LONDON 20 PLACE VENDOME, PARIS

720 Fifth Avenue New York H. C. Frick, Esq. #5 Duveen Brothers

LIBRARY (con) Forward 786 (con) are small red and green birds and insects, in reserve on black. On the neck are four upright foliated red-bordered ovals with sprays of flowers on black. K'ANG HSI Ht. 18 1/4" 28,000-00 782 QUADRILATERAL BLACK HAWTHORN VASE. Decorated with flowering shrubs, plants and yellow finches in enamel colors on a black ground. K'ANG HSI Ht. 19 1/4" 25,000-00 770 BLACK HAWTHORN BEAKER VASE on carved ebony stand. Decorated with a white prunus-tree springing from light green and rose-colored rocks, near which finches and deep green bamboo leaves are seen; a collar of black scroll design on pale green encircles the base of the neck, which is decorated like the body. K'ANG HSI Ht. 22 1/4" 75,000-00 1218 TALL NECKED BEAKER in black enamel. The black enamel of this vase is of the "raven's wing" variety deep in tone with a dull lustre. Prunus flowers on branches in the purest white overspread the surface of the body and neck, with leaves in the brightest green. K'ANG HSI Ht. 16 3/4" 55,000-00 Forward 1,080,000-00

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