A PAIR OF 'BRIGHTON PAVILION' NODDING-HEAD PLASTERWORK FIGURES OF OFFICIALS seated on rockwork, both wearing plain overcoats, applied with a square rank badge, over a multi-coloured court robe, chaofu, embroidered cuffs protruding from wide sleeves, each holding a red hankerchief in his hand, one wearing a raised cylindrical hat, the other wearing a tight-fitting cap with two flaps (slightly restored), early 19th Century

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A PAIR OF 'BRIGHTON PAVILION' NODDING-HEAD PLASTERWORK FIGURES OF OFFICIALS seated on rockwork, both wearing plain overcoats, applied with a square rank badge, over a multi-coloured court robe, chaofu, embroidered cuffs protruding from wide sleeves, each holding a red hankerchief in his hand, one wearing a raised cylindrical hat, the other wearing a tight-fitting cap with two flaps (slightly restored), early 19th Century
34.5cm. high (2)

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Cf. C. L. Crossman, op. cit., p. 316-17 for similar nodding figures in the Peabody Museum of Salem; and on p. 315 the painting, in the Royal Collection, by John Zoffany of Queen Charlotte with her sons, illustrates two nodding figures. Cf. also A. Setterwall, op. cit., pp. 179-183 for the figures in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm. Another figure, with long beard, belonging to Her Majety the Queen, on loan to the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, is illustrated by P. Conner, op. cit., p. 50, no. 60

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