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AED[SWORD SWALLOWERS] Two Watercolors of Chinese Sword Swallow...
Lot 279
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Unusual relics were the hallmark of Ricky Jay's storied collection. This second auction from his archives features an astonishing array of the fantastic, the funny, and the flabbergasting. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
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[SWORD SWALLOWERS]?TWO WATERCOLORS OF CHINESE SWORD SWALLOWERS AND ACROBATS.?Late 18th century [?]. Two delicately-rendered images of fairground performers in China, the smaller picturing a man, stripped to the waist, swallowing a sword, with two musicians and a diablo juggler also in the scene, and an acrobat?s ladder behind them; the larger image on thin paper picturing a sword swallower in action with his trunk of props behind him (and a set of Cups and Balls on the ground before the box). The larger 13 ? 12", unevenly cut from a larger sheet, the smaller mounted to stiff card. The larger used as an illustration in?Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, at page 276.
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![Group of 9 Hand-Colored Plates of Fish from “Allgemeine Naturgeschicte, VI, Zoologie.” [OKEN, Lorenz]. [Stuttgart, ca. 1830s].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/m/3631/36317895.jpeg?t=1WbiS1)
![BRANGWYN, Frank (1867-1956). Trio of Signed, Large Architectural Etchings. [England, ca. 1900s-1920s].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/m/3629/36293875.jpeg?t=1WaWoq)
![HOKUSAI, Katsushika (1760-1849). "Hokusai Painting Landscape Print Collection" [translated from Japanese]. [Tokyo: Kyodo News, n. d. ca. 1970s].](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/m/3634/36340084.jpeg?t=1WciNN)
