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A PAIR OF SMILING COURT LADIES
QIANLONG PERIOD
Modelled in mirror image, each holding to one side a lobed beaker vase, wearing robes dotted with pink and purple roses and iron-red and gilt roundels over a blue skirt, the hems bordered in keyfret, their ears hung with gilt earrings and pink hair ornaments in their elaborate topknots (hands, one vase rim, one hair ornament and back of one hairdo with some restoration)--16½in. (42cm.) high (2)
QIANLONG PERIOD
Modelled in mirror image, each holding to one side a lobed beaker vase, wearing robes dotted with pink and purple roses and iron-red and gilt roundels over a blue skirt, the hems bordered in keyfret, their ears hung with gilt earrings and pink hair ornaments in their elaborate topknots (hands, one vase rim, one hair ornament and back of one hairdo with some restoration)--16½in. (42cm.) high (2)