ID 1122180
Lot 541 | A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' FIGURE GROUP
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 25 000
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.
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Art style: | Chinese Export |
| Historical era: | Qianlong period |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Statuettes |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Art style: | Chinese Export |
| Historical era: | Qianlong period |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Statuettes |
| Address of auction |
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