Property from the Estate of Susan S. Dillon
TWO CHINESE FAMILLE-ROSE FIGURAL GROUPS, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD | 清乾隆 粉彩人物擺件兩件
Auction Closed
January 26, 08:38 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
Lot Details
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TWO CHINESE FAMILLE-ROSE FIGURAL GROUPS
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
清乾隆 粉彩人物擺件兩件
one modeled as a pair of lovers, the young man kneeling with arms embracing a standing lady with her right arm around his shoulder holding a fly-whisk, both with smiling expressions, the other modeled as a standing lady holding a peach on her left hand adjacent to a pierced rockwork stand surmounted by a rectangular jardinière with blooming flowers and foliage
height of taller 8¾ in.; 22.2 cm
A nearly identical example of the 'lover' group, formerly in the collection of Yves Mallié de Fonfais, Paris, is illustrated in Michel Beurdeley and Guy Raindre, Qing Porcelain: Famille Verte, Famille Rose, London, 1987, p. 129, cat. no. 180. Another example, previously in the collection of the late Hon. Mrs. Nellie Ionides, was sold in our London rooms, February 24th, 1976, lot 286. A related example of the figure of a lady with a pierced rockwork stand, but with a dog instead of a jardinière, is in the Copeland Collection at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, and illustrated in William R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection: Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, Salem, 1991, p. 132, cat. no. 60, where the author notes that similar examples are found in Dehua porcelains.