iGavel Auctions: Chinese Silver Wire Inlaid Bronze Miniature Vase, Qing Dynasty CAC1

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Estimate
$700-1000

Description
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Provenance
Property from the Collection of Brigadier General Charles A. Coolidge
The Coolidge Ledger: "Bought on HA-TA-MEN Road in Tartar City in Peking China from street boxer loot merchant March 1901" Ledger number 207
On loan: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, May 14, 1932, number 60
St. John's School Exhibition: Glimpses of Ancient China March 6, 1963; possibly back of page 4 under "Bronze and Glass"

Measurements
Height: 2 1/2 inches

Weight

Condition
with some irregularities in the casting at the join of the foot and body, minor nicks and occasional losses to wire inlay