QIANLONG (1736-95)

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A PAIR OF EXPORT 'PUG' DOGS
QIANLONG (1736-95)
Modelled seated with heads turned sharply to the left and right, wearing bells suspended from iron-red collars, their coats naturalistically decorated with sepia fur markings
7 in. (18 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

A very similar pair of pug dogs in the Hodroff collection is illustrated by D. S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, no. 331, pp. 274-5. A pug dog from the Mottahedeh collection, similarly modelled but with 'clipped' ears, is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, no. 623, pp. 598-600, where the authors state these models of dogs were inspired by Meissen examples by Kändler made from circa 1734 onwards; another, from the Essayan collection, Lisbon, is illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, pp. 110-111, fig. 81.

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