Lot 154
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TWO RARE IRON-RED AND GILT MONKEY GROUPS, each naturalistically modelled and enamelled seated, one as a parent monkey holding its young over its hind legs while looking up and to one side, the other seated and holding its forepaws to its mouth as though feeding, with detailed claws and faces, the fur in iron-red with gold highlights, the faces also in shades of iron-red (old star hairlines to larger figure, claw of baby restored), Qianlong/Jiaqing

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TWO RARE IRON-RED AND GILT MONKEY GROUPS, each naturalistically modelled and enamelled seated, one as a parent monkey holding its young over its hind legs while looking up and to one side, the other seated and holding its forepaws to its mouth as though feeding, with detailed claws and faces, the fur in iron-red with gold highlights, the faces also in shades of iron-red (old star hairlines to larger figure, claw of baby restored), Qianlong/Jiaqing
the larger group 15.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Two monkey groups from the Copeland Collection are illustrated by W. R. Sargent, op.cit., one as a pair, no.81, pp.174-5; and the other, no.133, pp.260-1 as a single group, more similarly decorated to this lot, but interestingly catalogued by Sargent as Japanese 19th Century

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