Important Americana: Silver, Chinese Export, and Prints
Important Americana: Silver, Chinese Export, and Prints
Property of a Private New York Collector
Two Rare Chinese Export Famille-rose Figures of Ladies, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, circa 1740 | 清乾隆 約1740年 粉彩仕女擺件一對
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January 22, 06:50 PM GMT
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3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Property of a Private New York Collector
Two Rare Chinese Export Famille-rose Figures of Ladies
Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, circa 1740
清乾隆 約1740年 粉彩仕女擺件一對
each modeled seated with left leg outstretched, the hair secured by a blue cloth, the arm supporting an infant wearing an iron-red and gilt dudou grasping a ruyi and a fruit
height 7 1/4 in.; 18.4 cm
Sotheby's Monaco, June 19th, 1988, lot 1692
Compare a pair of examples similarly modeled but with the ladies holding small spaniels in their hands and seated on a rockwork base adjacent to a phoenix, in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, and illustrated in William R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection: Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, Salem, 1991, cat. no. 57. Another pair, formerly in the James E. Sowell Collection, is illustrated in Michael Cohen and William Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Reigate, 2008, cat. no. 5.2.