A PAIR OF CHINESE DANCERS modelled by Gwendoline Parnell, their hands with angular movements and each with one knee raised, wearing loose robes, pantaloons and wide boots, he wearing a pill-box hat with a long plait curling down his back, she with her hair en chignon and wearing a headdress and earrings, painted in black, 'duck egg' green, grey, cream and green edged in 'Chinese' red, standing against flat pedestals on square bases painted with key-pattern (restoration to his plait and her left earring, cracks to his lower robes and pedestal, minute crack to her pedetal, slight wear to corners of base), impressed GP monogram, black printed marks, bases incised RB, model numbers 3194 and 3195, date codes for 1935

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A PAIR OF CHINESE DANCERS modelled by Gwendoline Parnell, their hands with angular movements and each with one knee raised, wearing loose robes, pantaloons and wide boots, he wearing a pill-box hat with a long plait curling down his back, she with her hair en chignon and wearing a headdress and earrings, painted in black, 'duck egg' green, grey, cream and green edged in 'Chinese' red, standing against flat pedestals on square bases painted with key-pattern (restoration to his plait and her left earring, cracks to his lower robes and pedestal, minute crack to her pedetal, slight wear to corners of base), impressed GP monogram, black printed marks, bases incised RB, model numbers 3194 and 3195, date codes for 1935
9½in. (24cm.) high (2)
Literature
Sandon, 1987, pl. 36 and dust-cover

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