Lot 105
105
A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN GLAZED TERRACOTTA FIGURES OF MONGOLIANS ON GILTWOOD CUSHIONS, the figures with traces of cold enamel decoration, wearing Eastern dress with turbanned caps, tight jackets tied with a sash, pantaloons and long boots, seated cross-legged holding a bowl balanced on one knee and a goblet forming a candlestick on the other, on later square tasselled giltwood cushions (one with restoration to neck, sleeves, fingers to left hand, left foot and leg, the other with restoration to top of hat, left hand and leg, bowl and candlestick broken and repaired), first half of the 18th Century

Details
A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN GLAZED TERRACOTTA FIGURES OF MONGOLIANS ON GILTWOOD CUSHIONS, the figures with traces of cold enamel decoration, wearing Eastern dress with turbanned caps, tight jackets tied with a sash, pantaloons and long boots, seated cross-legged holding a bowl balanced on one knee and a goblet forming a candlestick on the other, on later square tasselled giltwood cushions (one with restoration to neck, sleeves, fingers to left hand, left foot and leg, the other with restoration to top of hat, left hand and leg, bowl and candlestick broken and repaired), first half of the 18th Century
The figures 16ins. (41cm.) and 15in. (38cm.) high respectively (4)
Provenance
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., recorded in the Large Drawing Room in the pre-1927 inventory and in 1939

Lot Essay

These stoneware figures are visible in both the interior area 1923 of the Large Drawing Room by E. Shepherd and in Sir John Lavery's picture of the room 'The Red Hat', dated 1925. They stood on the Boulle cabinet des médailles which Sir Philip had inherited from his grandparents Baron and Baronne Gustave de Rothschild. It was sold in these Rooms 12 April 1984, lot 164 and is now in the J. Paul Getty Museum
C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts, An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, no. 8, p.16

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