TWO CELADON-GLAZED FIGURAL GROUPS

CIRCA 1750

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TWO CELADON-GLAZED FIGURAL GROUPS
circa 1750
One amusingly modelled as a 'piggy-back' group with a lady wearing an underglaze blue robe and hat on the back of a smiling gentleman wearing celadon-glazed robes and holding a boot between his teeth, standing on an underglaze blue wave base, minor restoration; the other a seated dignitary holding a huban tablet and wearing an official cap, his robes celadon-glazed, tablet chipped
7 in. (19.5 cm.) and 7 in. (18 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Compare the very similar figures which formed part of the 'Nanking' cargo salvaged from the shipwrecked Geldermalsen, which sank in 1752, and which was sold Christie's Amsterdam 28 April - 2 May 1986. See C. Sheaf and R. Kilburn, The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes, 1988, pp.153-158, and pl.208 for a very comparable 'piggy-back' group.

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