A SET OF SIX NODDING HEAD COURT LADIES

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-95)

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A SET OF SIX NODDING HEAD COURT LADIES
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-95)
Each finely dressed court lady holding a vase to one side to serve as candle holder or flower vase, her head modeled separately to 'nod'

Provenance

The Mottahedeh Collection (center left), illustrated by Ayers & Howard, Chinese for the West, p. 614

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Lot Essay

Westerners were fascinated by the rich and exotic costume of the Chinese court and ordered courtly figures with nodding heads - soon copied by Meissen and others - to decorate dining tables in palaces and grand houses.

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