A PAIR OF FIGURES OF A JAPANESE MAN AND WOMAN modelled by James Hadley, each standing beside a carved table adorned with drapery and with a vase moulded with flowers and birds, she reading a letter and holding a fan, wearing a pink-lined brown kimono enriched with a dense gilt diaper-pattern and with a lilac obi similarly enriched in gilding, he with swords tucked underneath his arm, and wearing a lilac jacket, pale-blue tunic and a long green skirt enriched with gilt lozenges, on shaped cream bases edged with bronze key-pattern (restoration to her left hand and letter, to rim of her vase and back corners of base, and to his neck, minute chip to front of his base, some wear to gilding and enamels), impressed Hadley, impressed and purple printed marks, he with impressed number 2/123, date codes for 1878

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A PAIR OF FIGURES OF A JAPANESE MAN AND WOMAN modelled by James Hadley, each standing beside a carved table adorned with drapery and with a vase moulded with flowers and birds, she reading a letter and holding a fan, wearing a pink-lined brown kimono enriched with a dense gilt diaper-pattern and with a lilac obi similarly enriched in gilding, he with swords tucked underneath his arm, and wearing a lilac jacket, pale-blue tunic and a long green skirt enriched with gilt lozenges, on shaped cream bases edged with bronze key-pattern (restoration to her left hand and letter, to rim of her vase and back corners of base, and to his neck, minute chip to front of his base, some wear to gilding and enamels), impressed Hadley, impressed and purple printed marks, he with impressed number 2/123, date codes for 1878
15¾in. (40cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

Cf. Sandon, 1973, pl. 22. See also a similar pair sold in these Rooms, 10 October 1988, lot 473