Pair to the ‘Bainbridge vase’ emerges at Sotheby’s

The pair to the famous ‘Bainbridge vase’ – knocked down at £43m in 2010 but later sold for half of that sum – is to come to market. Sotheby’s will sell the near identical vase, that has a century-long provenance, in Hong Kong in the autumn.

The so-called Yamanaka reticulated vase takes its name from the firm of Yamanaka & Co, founded b…

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