THE PORCELAIN QIANLONG (1736-95)

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED FAMILLE ROSE GROUP
THE PORCELAIN QIANLONG (1736-95)
Comprising a female figure seated beside a lotus cup on a flat rockwork base, wearing a pale green coat over iron-red trousers tied at the waist by a pink sash and a blue turban-style headdress above her well-modelled face, the lotus cup formed as an upturned lotus leaf attached to an iron-red bud, the interior of the cup with an applied black small crab, the whole mounted with an ormolu base, leafy exotic foliage behind the figure, the figure's neck and shoes replaced in ormolu and in her hands she holds a large ormolu lotus bud
overall height 11½ in. (29 cm.)

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Lot Essay

This figure originally held a dog in her hands and was seated beside a peacock appearing from rockwork. See W. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, Salem, 1991, pp. 124 and 125, no. 57. The ormolu replacement lotus bud in her hands cleverly mirrors the bud beside the lotus cup, which was originally intended as a brush-washer.

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