Lot 75

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An important private collection, Sydney, acquired in the mid-1990s by the present owner while working with Golay Buchel, the Swiss gem and jewellery company with global operations across more than 17 countries.

Golay Buchel, in addition to its extensive gem trade, maintained a distinguished department of Chinese and Japanese antiques, with a collection valued at approximately 7 million CHF. In the mid-1990s, under the direction of its then-chairman, the department was dissolved, and the collection was dispersed through private sales and a series of auctions at Salle Drouot, Paris, in 1995 and 1996.
The present vase was among several works the present owner personally selected and retained from this collection.