QIANLONG (1736-95)

細節

A PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE ROSE 'LADY' CANDLE-HOLDERS
QIANLONG (1736-95)
Well modelled and finely enamelled holding a gu-shaped beaker vase at their opposite sides, each wearing a pale green robe delicately decorated with prunus and cracked-ice-pattern and reserved with floral sprays over long multi-coloured pleated skirts, the robes and vases embellished with finely detailed gilt decoration, and their realistically incised hair both falling onto their shoulders and looped up in a chignon embellished with small flowers
16¼ in. (41.5 cm.) high (2)

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拍品專文

Compare the very similarly modelled and decorated figure, slightly larger, from the W. Martin-Hurst collection, illustrated by G. C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, London, 1927, plate LIX (bottom right). A related pair of ladies with candle-holders, of very similar large size to the present lot, is in the Hodroff collection, illustrated by D. S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, no. 307, p. 258.