an opposing pair of baluster form jars with panelled decoration of ducks in a lotus pond
accented with multi-colour pear shaped sapphires totalling approximately 1
and the lower in yellow
both after drawings by Francois-Edmond Paris
mounted in a yellow gold setting marked '750' for 18K to the stud backings
A GROUP OF FOUR INDONESIAN ETHNOGRAPHIC ENGRAVINGS, JOHAN NIEUHOFF, 1732 Decorative Arts > Glass > Crystal an opposing pair of balusterComprising 'A Malabar Man and Wooman', 'A Melaya Captain', 'A Malabar Shewing Tricks with Serpents', ' Playing upon Kalabasses', four engravings with hand colouring, from 'A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English. In six volumes', published 1732, mounted, unframed