A PAIR OF EXPORT SEATED PUGS

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Details

A PAIR OF EXPORT SEATED PUGS
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each brown, snub-nosed dog has "clipped" ears and is modeled seated with its tongue sticking out and its fluffy tail curled to one side. A gilt bell hangs from an iron-red collar around its neck.
9 ¾ in. (24.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Auktionsverket, Sweden, November 2006.
With Cohen & Cohen, London.
The James E. Sowell Collection, Dallas, Texas.

Literature

Michael Cohen and William Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Reigate, 2008, p. 168.

Lot Essay

A pug dog from the Mottahedeh collection, similarly modeled with 'clipped' ears, is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. II, pp. 598-600, no. 623, where the authors state these models of dogs were inspired by Meissen examples by Kändler made from circa 1734 onwards. Also compare the examples sold Sotheby's London, 5 November 2014, lots 309 and 310.

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