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AN EXPORT GROUP OF A MONKEY AND ITS YOUNG
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AN EXPORT GROUP OF A MONKEY AND ITS YOUNG

19TH CENTURY

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AN EXPORT GROUP OF A MONKEY AND ITS YOUNG
19th Century
The seated parent modelled with head turned to its right, its arms holding onto the smaller monkey which is clambering around its feet, both with pale red bodies with gilt fur markings and the faces and ears in deep and pale shades of iron-red
6¼ in. (16 cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

Compare the very similar Japanese version of this group in the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, illustrated by W. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, 1991, pp.260-1, no.133. However, the body of the body of the porcelain, the modelling, and the gilding on the present example, strongly suggest that this particular example was made in China. Another similar group from the Collection of the Hon. Mrs. Basil Ionides was sold Sotheby's London, 29 May 1990, lot 99.

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