Lot 306
306
OTHER PROPERTIES
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE FIGURES OF MAIDENS HOLDING VASES

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE FIGURES OF MAIDENS HOLDING VASES
JIAQING

Made for the export market, each holding a gilt and iron-red decorated lobed beaker vase and wearing layered robes decorated with foliate medallions, butterflies and scattered flower sprigs within foliate and key-pattern borders, with a petal collar at the neck, the faces well-modeled and delicately painted, the hair dressed in a looped topknot and segmented at the nape, restoration to hands--17¾ in. (45.2cm.) 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. Compare also the pair of figures from the Collection of Sylvia and Emma Jackson sold in these rooms, May 30, 1991, lot 370