Offered by JM Béalu & Fils
Two of Chinese porcelain figurines representing court ladies richly dressed in gowns, tunics, and capes; they wear their hair in a bun adorned with golden pins and hold a lotus flower-shaped vase serving as a candlestick; polychrome decoration with Famille Rose enamels.
Circa 1760. Qianlong period (1736-1795). 18th century.
Height of figurines: 29.5 cm; Total height: 34.5 cm.
A few three-petal lotus motifs.
Gilded bronze mount in Louis XV style, 19th century.
Formerly part of a French collection.
See Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, for a similar pair but with differences in color and clothing, catalog no. 61, pp. 133–135.
Maria Antonia Pinto de Matos, The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics, A Collector’s Vision, vol. II, pp. 332–333, Inv. No. 316. Ed. Jorge Welsh Books, London 2011.
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