A PAIR OF EXPORT FIGURES OF LADIES HOLDING VASES

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A PAIR OF EXPORT FIGURES OF LADIES HOLDING VASES
18th century

Each modelled standing on a square plinth with moulded floral panels, holding an elongated baluster vase at her right side, wearing a black tunic enriched with gilt borders and roundels tied with a wide sash at the waist over an iron-red long-sleeved dress and a yellow long pleated skirt with floral roundels and gilt borders, her face well modelled below her black incised hair coiled into a bun, minor chips, some restoration
11in. (28cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. the similar pair in the Hodroff Collection, illustrated by D. S. Howard, op.cit., no.308, pp.258 and 259; and the single figure from the Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by D. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., vol. II, no.643, p.614

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