KANGXI

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A Rare Pair of Glazed Biscuit Figures of Ladies
Kangxi
Shown standing on rectangular plinths with the tips of their delicate shoes peeking out from beneath the hem of the green underskirt, wearing cloud collars and multicolored robes decorated with crane roundels on one and peony blossoms on the other, their heads cocked slightly to the side, and their long faces delicately and crisply modeled below high, domed hairdos pulled back into a coil secured with decorative hair pins
18½ and 18¾in. (47 and 47.6cm.) high (2)

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Tax exempt.

Lot Essay

Compare a related famille verte figure of a lady of slightly larger size, also dressed in layered robes but modelled without a rectangular plinth and small jardinière at her feet, illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, New Jersey, 1984, p. 288, no. 4. See, also, the figure illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, Tokyo, 1977, vol. 12, p. 217, fig. 89.

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