CIRCA 1740

Details

An underglaze-blue model of a laughing boy
Circa 1740
Seated half-clad with a short apron knotted around the waist and washed in pale underglaze-blue, his smiling face modelled with two bangs of knotted hair, the arms raised, the legs bent at the knee, chips to the feet
11.6 cm. high

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Similar models of laughing boys were sold in The Nanking Cargo, Amsterdam, 28 April-2 May 1986, lots 5753-5757. Also see David S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 254 no. 301; and Sheaf and Kilburn, The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes, pp. 156-7.

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