A PAIR OF AFRICAN BLACK WOOD URNS ON PAINTED PEDESTALS BY GEORGE OAKES, 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF AFRICAN BLACK WOOD URNS ON PAINTED PEDESTALS BY GEORGE OAKES
20TH CENTURY
The urns 17cm high, 36cm high overall

Photographed in ‘Colefax & Fowler’, Chester Jones, Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, page 86.

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