拍品專文
The role of the exotic nod-welcoming Chinese 'toy' in enlivening fashionable Georgian bedroom apartments is noted in David Garrick's play The Clandestine Marriage, 1766. This richly-robed figure corresponds to one of four figures that are likely to have been acquired for a chimneypiece garniture at Ham House, Surrey by Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart (d. 1821) and his Countess, Anna Maria (C. Roundell, Ham House, London, 1904, p. 44).
Johann Zoffany's portrait of Queen Charlotte with her two sons of 1764, shows two nodding-head figures in the background, however very few documentary or dated examples have been published (C. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, 1991, p. 315, pl. 185).
Johann Zoffany's portrait of Queen Charlotte with her two sons of 1764, shows two nodding-head figures in the background, however very few documentary or dated examples have been published (C. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, 1991, p. 315, pl. 185).