PROBABLY GUANGXU

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A RARE FAMILLE VERTE FIGURE OF A EUROPEAN MISSIONARY
probably guangxu
Standing with feet astride, holding a wide-brimmed hat in his left hand at his hip and a rosary suspending a cross in his right hand, wearing a seeded-green floral shirt, yellow trousers with scrolling lotus decoration and a black-ground waistcoat with lotus-heads and fretwork, his well-modelled face with thick long hair falling to his shoulders, hat and one hand restored
10¼in. (26cm.) high, wood stand

Lot Essay

A very similar figure but wearing knee breeches and differently enamelled robes is in the Hodroff Collection, illustrated by D. S. Howard, op.cit., p.260, no.310, where the author says that "the last quarter of the 19th Century saw a short period of high quality famille verte enamelling", to which group this figure must surely belong.

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