Lot 410
410
ANOTHER PROPERTY
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE FIGURES OF MAIDENS

Details
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE FIGURES OF MAIDENS
QIANLONG/JIAQING

Each standing figure holding a gilt-decorated iron-red beaker vase, wearing a pink robe painted in a darker tone with flower sprigs, with a pale turquoise apron painted in dark blue-green with bats and clouds tied around the waist with a green sash, the faces modeled with coy expression and the grooved and black-painted hair partially drawn up into a double topknot held with a hairpin, some restoration--15¾in. (40cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Compare a similar pair of figures holding vases illustrated by W.G. Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, vol. II, nos. 714 and 715. Pairs of figures of the same model as the present pair were sold in these rooms on May 30, 1991, lot 370, and June 3, 1993, lot 306