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A PAIR OF SMILING COURT LADIES
QIANLONG PERIOD
Modelled in mirror image, each holding a lobed beaker vase in her hands and wearing flowered robes edged in green-ground flowering vine and blue-ground 'cracked ice', a gilt-decorated peach apron tied with a blue sash around her waist and a pink flower hair ornament in her topknot (one broken and restored, the other with restoration to neck and hands)--16½in. (42cm.) high (2)
QIANLONG PERIOD
Modelled in mirror image, each holding a lobed beaker vase in her hands and wearing flowered robes edged in green-ground flowering vine and blue-ground 'cracked ice', a gilt-decorated peach apron tied with a blue sash around her waist and a pink flower hair ornament in her topknot (one broken and restored, the other with restoration to neck and hands)--16½in. (42cm.) high (2)