Lot 209
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A 'FAMILLE-ROSE' EROTIC-SUBJECT SCHOLARS' BLOTTER QING DYNASTY

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

the upper section modelled with a man and a woman in a loving embrace, each wearing brightly enamelled floral jackets, the rounded base with ducks amongst lotus

Catalogue Note

Compare a famille-rose erotic group sold in our Amsterdam rooms, 25th October 1994, lot 428; and a box with a cover surmounted with a reclining woman feeding a young boy, in the James E. Sowell collection, illustrated in Michael Cohen and William Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie. Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, vol. 1, Surrey, 2008, p. 122.