A STAFFORDSHIRE WHTIE SALTGLAZE FIGURE OF A STANDING CHINAMAN

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A STAFFORDSHIRE WHTIE SALTGLAZE FIGURE OF A STANDING CHINAMAN
CIRCA 1750

With a curl on his head, a robe about his shoulders, naked to the waist, wearing a rope-tied skirt and holding a fan in his right hand, a peach in his left, standing on a cloud-moulded base, Jacobs Collection no. 603--7¼in. (18.5cm.) high
Provenance
Wallace Elliot, Sotheby's London, 1938???, lot 63
Sir Victor and Lady Gollancz, Sotheby's London, July 15, 1975, lot 91
Behar Collection, no. 549
Literature
Charleston & Towner, English Ceramics, no. 36

Lot Essay

Cf. Rackham, Schreiber Collection, pl. 16, no. 92; The Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition, pl. XXXIX, no. 49; Frank Tilley 'The Saviour of Saltglaze', Antique Collector, September/October 1949, fig. 5 for similar examples