Lot 204
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A PAIR OF WHITE-GLAZED EXPORT MONKEYS, crouching on iron-brown rockwork bases, their expressive biscuit faces with bulging eyes peering at a peach held in the right hand resting upon its knee, the left with two fingers extended, traces of iron-red at the eyes and ears (firing crack, two fingers restored),

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A PAIR OF WHITE-GLAZED EXPORT MONKEYS, crouching on iron-brown rockwork bases, their expressive biscuit faces with bulging eyes peering at a peach held in the right hand resting upon its knee, the left with two fingers extended, traces of iron-red at the eyes and ears (firing crack, two fingers restored),

late Qianlong/Jiaqing
17.3cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

See D. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, passim, for a discussion of animal groups specially commissioned for the European market, and illustrations of several varieties including comparable monkey groups

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