PROPERTY FROM THE collects ION OF DR. AND MRS. SILVIO RICCIO
A RARE PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT 'NODDING HEAD' FIGURES OF LADIES, QING DYNASTY, 18TH/ 19TH CENTURY | 清十八/十九世紀 粉彩點頭仕女擺件一對
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January 26, 08:38 PM GTNN
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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A RARE PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT 'NODDING HEAD' FIGURES OF LADIES
QING DYNASTY, 18TH/ 19TH CENTURY
清十八/十九世紀 粉彩點頭仕女擺件一對
each modeled holding a fan on one hand and a lingzhi-form ruyi-sceptre on the other, waring long robes decorated with roundels and floral sprigs, wearing elaborate head dresses and standing on a waisted hexagonal pierced base
height 16¼ in.; 41.3 cm
Mallet, London, 2010
Compare a pair of similarly modeled examples but without hexagonal bases, in the collects ion of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, given by C. N. Ades, in memory of his wife Andrée, and illustrated in Craig Clunas, Chinese Export Art and Design, London, 1987, p. 50, cat. no. 30. Another pair was sold at Christie's London, April 5th, 2001, lot 351, from the Humphrey Whitebread collects ion.