A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT POLYCHROME-DECORATED NODDING HEAD FIGURES OF COURT MUSICIANS

Lot 618
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Lot 618 | A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT POLYCHROME-DECORATED NODDING HEAD FIGURES OF COURT MUSICIANS
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$ 50 000 – 70 000
A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT POLYCHROME-DECORATED NODDING HEAD FIGURES OF COURT MUSICIANS

QING DYNASTY (1644-1911), CIRCA 1800

Depicting a lady and a gentleman, modeled in unfired clay or composition, each playing a wooden banhu or ruan instrument and dressed in a gilt-decorated Mandarin jacket over robes painted with flowers, seated on a base carved as a tree-stump, on painted wooden bases

26 in. (66 cm.) high





Provenance

The Estate of Leigh B. Block; Sotheby's, New York, 3 June 1988, lot 211.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 1995, lot 86.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

A Curious Affair, pp. 20-21
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