A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN `EUROPEAN SUBJECT` FIGURE GROUP

Lot 541
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Lot 541 | A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' FIGURE GROUP
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' FIGURE GROUP

QIANLONG PERIOD, MID-18TH CENTURY

Modeled smiling and standing, the gentleman wearing a tricorn hat, blue cravat and red coat, his arm draped over the shoulders of the lady, she wearing a purple bodice and blue-green skirt, on a flat grassy base applied with a large pink flower

9 in. (22.9 cm.) high





Provenance

Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 409.



Literature

D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, New York and London, 1978, II, pp. 616-618, no. 647.



Exhibited

Lincoln, DeCordova Museum, The China Trade: Romance and Reality, June-September 1979.

Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Mottahedeh Collection, January 1981-October 1982.

New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, China for the West, February 1984.
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