DESCRIPTION: Two Chinese enameled metal models of pomegranates with attached enameled metal bats.

This lot was acquired from a deaccession of various objects belonging to Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami. However, this lot represents objects that were donated to Vizcaya by benefactors over a period of past decades. This lot was never a part of the museum’s original collection.

CIRCA: 20th century
ORIGIN: Chinese
DIMENSIONS: (Longer, approximately) W: 3.25" L: 5"
CONDITION: (First model) Missing a bat. Missing leaves. Heavy denting and enamel loss, with associated hairline cracks and a small split in the metal. Bending to calyx. Bend to bat's wing. (Second model) Two areas of moderate enamel loss on fruit, with associated hairline cracks. Minor bending to calyx. Losses to enamel on leaves and bats, with associated hairline cracks. One bat has lost part of a wing; bending to this bat's remaining wing. The other bat has a bend to one wing and possible bending to the other wing.
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