True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra and Cecile Zilkha

A Rare Pair of Chinese Famille-Rose Figures of Boys, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period | 清乾隆 粉彩童子擺件一對

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January 24, 09:30 PM GMT

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True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra and Cecile Zilkha

A Rare Pair of Chinese Famille-Rose Figures of Boys,

Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period

清乾隆 粉彩童子擺件一對


each modeled with a joyful expression and a lock-form amulet around the neck, both arms outstretched, one hand supporting a pear-shaped vase, wearing a yellow dudou decorated with peonies, clouds and crane medallions over a pair of loose trousers showing ankles above shoes with upturned toes, standing atop a pierced rectangular base

height 14 in.; 35.6 cm

Eymery & Cie., Paris, 29 October 1985
Compare a similarly modeled pair of boys, one wearing a yellow apron decorated with a dragon and the other with a turquoise apron decorated with sanduo, sold at Christie's London, 7 November 1994, lot 91. Another pair of boys each wearing pink aprons, decorated with peonies and phoenix medallions, holding a globular vase with a straight and wide neck, was sold in our London rooms, 27 November 1990, lot 120. A larger example, previously sold in our London rooms on 10 May 1994, lot 210, later entered the collection of Cécile du Roy de Blicquy, baronne Panaert d'Opdorp (1899-1981), and sold again in our London rooms, 17 November 1999, lot 982. The pair is currently in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, and is illustrated in William R. Sargent, Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem 2012, cat. no. 255.
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