SOLD! for $192.00.
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1st-2nd items: Pair of Chinese carved black and red cinnabar vases, each with flowering branch decoration to the bodies and blue enameled interiors. 10" H x approx. 4 3/4" dia. 20th century. 3rd item: Japanese Tetsubin iron teapot with bronze lid having a flower bud finial. Seal mark below the spout. 6" H x approx. 5 3/4" dia. 19th century. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.
PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.
CONDITION: 1st -2nd items: Overall good condition, some scattered minor losses to red ground of each and wear along base. 3rd item: Overall good condition. Lid is possibly a replacement.
