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Lot 98
Sale 2359 - Silver & Objets de Vertu
May 20, 2015
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$5,500
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Large Japanese silver presentation ginger jar and cover Meiji period, dated 1907
The body finely repousséd and chased to show flowering branches on a stippled ground, one side engraved "Presented to Mr and Mrs G.W.C. Drexel by the Officers and Crew of their Yacht Alcedo, at the Conclusion of their World Yachting Cruise, Yokohama, 1907," the other side engraved with the crossed flags and banner of "Alcedo. 1906-1907," above the initial "D," character marks to underside.
H: 14 in. 63 oz