A LARGE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE COURT LADY CANDLEHOLDERS

QIANLONG PERIOD

Details

A LARGE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE COURT LADY CANDLEHOLDERS
QIANLONG PERIOD
Each standing lady smiling sweetly and holding a vase to her side to take a candle, her hair swept up in a double topknot pinned with a flower and with a thin white-glazed headband, on a green lotus-leaf base
16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

C. Avery Topping Collection, Brasted Park, England

Literature

Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 258, pl. 307

Exhibited

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1997

Lot Essay

Chinese porcelain court ladies were fashionable on European tables in the second half of the 18th century, and were made in varying sizes with varying details. A pair modelled very like the present example from a private Canadian collection was sold Christie's New York, 26 January 2006, lot 40. Also compare Howard and Ayers, op. cit., vol. II, p.614-5, pl. 644.

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