A RARE BLANC DE CHINE 'PEEPING TOM' GROUP

18TH CENTURY

细节

A RARE BLANC DE CHINE 'PEEPING TOM' GROUP
18TH CENTURY
Modelled as a young soldier and woman standing on a tile floor in front of a floor screen decorated in relief with a qilin, while an official with a long beard watches and eavesdrops from behind the screen, the soldier with his arm around the shoulder of the woman who stands demurely with her hands hidden within her long sleeves
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high

来源

Chait Galleries, New York.

拍品专文

For a slightly different model of this group see P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, New York/Washington, 1969, pl. 105 (bottom left), where it is identified as 'Peeping Tom'. In discussing a group of a man and woman illustrated by R. Kerr and J. Ayers, Blanc de Chine: Porcelain from Dehua, Chicago, 2002, no. 31, the authors note that the subject may allude to a "scene from a popular story or theatrical of the time." They also note that groups of this type have been referred to as 'assignation groups'.