A PAIR OF CHINA TRADE FIGURES
A PAIR OF CHINA TRADE FIGURES

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF CHINA TRADE FIGURES
early 19th century
Depicting an elderly man and woman with well-modelled clay heads, clay limbs and wearing silk robes, he wearing spectacles, black skull-cap, black jacket and grey skirt over green trousers, and she holding a long pipe in one hand and a silk purse in the other, and wearing metal earrings, brocade-trimmed aubergine jacket and black trousers, restoration to faces
both about 13¾ in. (35 cm.) high (2)

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An almost identical pair of figures was sold in our New York Rooms, 21 January 1999, lot 90; and another similar pair sold in the same Rooms, 21 and 22 January 1998, lot 282.