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Lot Essay
Compare with another erotic 'ear-cleaning' group from the Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann Collection sold at Christie's London, 10 april 2002, lot 502.
See a pedicure group and a discussion on these erotic groups, in W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection - Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, Salem, 1991, no.59. The author mentions related groups depicting men and women at everyday activities, such as ear-cleaning, teeth-cleaning, pedicure, music lesson, wine drinking and smoking, all of which he suggests are preliminary to sexual advances, and all have a veiled eroticism.
See a pedicure group and a discussion on these erotic groups, in W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection - Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, Salem, 1991, no.59. The author mentions related groups depicting men and women at everyday activities, such as ear-cleaning, teeth-cleaning, pedicure, music lesson, wine drinking and smoking, all of which he suggests are preliminary to sexual advances, and all have a veiled eroticism.