拍品 301
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清康熙 德化白釉西洋人騎獅擺件

估價
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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描述

  • ceramics
a grimacing lion standing foursquare, supporting two European figures and a pup perched on the back braced by the raised tail, the rectangular rockwork base with two further pups clambering beside a European man presenting a large coin

來源

倫敦佳士得1976年7月26日,編號187

展覽

《Blanc de Chine: Divine Images in Porcelain》,華美協進社美術館,紐約,2002年,編號60

Condition

There is restoration to two figures' hat, neck of the top figure and tail of the lion. The top figure has lost his left foot and right thumb. A few chips to the base. Minor firing imperfections.
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拍品資料及來源

For a similar example see P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, pl. 119A, which Donnelly presents as an example similar to a pair in the Van Cortlandt family collection of New York, inventoried in 1774, and possibly brought to the United States in 1638, ibid. p. 193.