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A PAIR OF EXPORT NODDING-HEAD LADY CANDLE-HOLDERS AND DETACHABLE NOZZLES
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A PAIR OF EXPORT NODDING-HEAD LADY CANDLE-HOLDERS AND DETACHABLE NOZZLES

CIRCA 1800

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A PAIR OF EXPORT NODDING-HEAD LADY CANDLE-HOLDERS AND DETACHABLE NOZZLES
CIRCA 1800
Each modelled standing on square waisted pedestals and holding tall vases to their left sides, the weighted nodding heads with high looped chignons applied with small flowers, and the vases with detachable moulded nozzles, each lady wearing black waistcoats with gilt floral roundels and collars, over red jackets and long yellow skirts
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high (2)
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拍品專文

A similar pair of 'nodding head' ladies are in the Hodroff Collection, illustrated by D. S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, no. 308, pp. 258-9; and a single example from the Mottahedeh Collection, is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, no. 643, p. 614.