CIRCA 1725-30

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A MEISSEN KAKIEMON SEATED PAGODA FIGURE
CIRCA 1725-30
Seated with his right hand resting on his raised right knee, his left leg tucked beneath his right, his pierced mouth open in laughter, his bald head with pierced ears, his face, partly-exposed torso, hands and foot subtly enriched in flesh tones, his lips in red, his eyes, eye-brows and hair behind his ears enriched in brown enamel, wearing a loose yellow-edged white garment incised with folds and decorated in green, turquoise, blue, puce, red, black and gilding with flamboyant stylised foliage scrolls, rockwork and indianische Blumen (slight chipping to footrim, toes and left ear, reverse with two slight firing cracks to footrim, areas of slight wear)
3¾ in. (9.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Ole Olsens Collection.

Literature

Hermann Schmitz, Ole Olsens Kunstsammlungen (Munich, 1927), Vol. II, pl. XXXVI, no. 1372.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

(Interior attached with paper label inscribed 38).

A Böttger porcelain example with a gilt head and torso and red lobsters on his robe, was sold in these Rooms on 8th July 2002, lot 260; and a blue, white and gilt example formerly in the Sydney J. Lamon Collection, New York, was sold by Christie's London on 29th November 1973, lot 17 and again on 13th December 2001, lot 641.

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