Paire de serviteurs en bronze doré et émaux cloisonnés Chine, Dynastie Qing XVIIIE-XIXE siècle

modelées en miroir, tenant un large plateau rempli de pêches, portant une longue robe à larges manches décorée de rinceaux et de fleurs de lotus stylisées sur fond bleu nuit sur une tunique aux mêmes motifs sur fond jaune, le visage en bronze doré, souriant légèrement, encadré de cheveux noirs soigneusement coiffés en un haut chignon

Un exemple similaire représentant un moine assis dans la collection Clague, Chinese Cloisonné, Phoenix, 1980, p. 140

Both figures are in overall good condition with the exception of some re-touching to small areas of flaked enamels: (as illustrated) figure on left - 12cm. wide section of blue enamel at the base of the coat; 4 x 2 cm., and two 2cm. diam. areas to the back of the coat; 3cm. wide section to the bottom left of the coat; two 2cm., and one 3cm. areas around the left arm; and further smaller areas of re-touching to the blue enamel. The turquoise-ground on the dish of peaches has been re-touched. The figure on the right - re-touching to a 5 x 2.5cm. section of the blue enamel at the bottom right side of the coat; two 1cm. diam. sections on the elbow of the left arm; a 3 x 2cm. section to the bottom middle of the back of the coat; a 1cm. section at the back of the left elbow; a 2cm. diam. section at the bottom left of the coat; and smaller areas of the blue enamel. The turquoise ground of the dish of peaches has been re-touched.
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Le sujet de cette paire de cloisonnés - serviteurs offrant des fruits - est inabituel. On trouve plus communément des représentations de personnages bouddhistes ou taoïstes; ainsi l'exemple d'un personnage en cloisonné représentant un Lohan dans une robe fleurie de couleur bleu, dans la collection de Melvin Gutman, vendu dans nos salles, Londres, 28 février 1935, lot 10; et une Guanyin, vendue dans nos salles, Londres, 14 juillet 1971, lot 70.