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The monumental vase as it was displayed in the main dining room of Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto in Berkeley, California.

The triptych of cloisonné vases as displayed at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The vase on the left resides in the Khalili collection. The censer is in the collection of Hirose Atsushi at the Tokyo National Museum while the vase on the right is the one for sale at Clars.