A BLANC-DE-CHINE 'MUSICIANS' GROUP AND A BLANC-DE-CHINE 'EUROPEAN- SUBJECT' WHISTLE, the first comprising three seated figures beside open rockwork, one playing a guitar another the flute, the last clapping (hands restored), late 17th Century/early 18th Century, 12cm. high; the second comprising a European gentleman wearing a tricorn hat resting one foot on the shoulder of a lion, early 18th Century, 7cm. high (2) | Christie's

Lot 129

129

A BLANC-DE-CHINE 'MUSICIANS' GROUP AND A BLANC-DE-CHINE 'EUROPEAN- SUBJECT' WHISTLE, the first comprising three seated figures beside open rockwork, one playing a guitar another the flute, the last clapping (hands restored), late 17th Century/early 18th Century, 12cm. high; the second comprising a European gentleman wearing a tricorn hat resting one foot on the shoulder of a lion, early 18th Century, 7cm. high (2)

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A BLANC-DE-CHINE 'MUSICIANS' GROUP AND A BLANC-DE-CHINE 'EUROPEAN- SUBJECT' WHISTLE, the first comprising three seated figures beside open rockwork, one playing a guitar another the flute, the last clapping (hands restored), late 17th Century/early 18th Century, 12cm. high; the second comprising a European gentleman wearing a tricorn hat resting one foot on the shoulder of a lion, early 18th Century, 7cm. high (2)

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For a similar blanc-de-chine musicians group cf. P. J. Donnelly, op. cit., fig.105B and for an almost identical European-subject whistle fig.120

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