A CHELSEA WHITE FIGURE OF PU-TAI after a Chinese Blanc-de-Chine original, seated holding a fruit in his left hand and his right hand resting on his raised right knee, his opened robe revealing his torso and large stomach (minute grazing to finger-tips of left hand, two minute chips to edge of base at back, small section of underside of base lacking), 1745-49

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A CHELSEA WHITE FIGURE OF PU-TAI after a Chinese Blanc-de-Chine original, seated holding a fruit in his left hand and his right hand resting on his raised right knee, his opened robe revealing his torso and large stomach (minute grazing to finger-tips of left hand, two minute chips to edge of base at back, small section of underside of base lacking), 1745-49
9cm. high

Provenance

Anon., sale Sotheby's, 16 May 1962, lot 58
Selwyn Parkinson, sale Sotheby's, 11 October 1966, lot 227

Literature

Margaret Legge, op. cit., p. 23, no. 1

Exhibited

Flowers and Fables, no. 1

Lot Essay

Cf. Peter Bradshaw, 18th Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795, p.86, pl. 13 and the example sold in these Rooms on 14 December 1981, lot 132

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