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A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' FIGURE GROUP
Lot 542 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MARVIN DAVIDSON

A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' FIGURE GROUP

QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1760-1780

Closed19 January 2024

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A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' FIGURE GROUP
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1760-1780
Modeled smiling and standing in a half-embrace dance position, as if to begin a minuet, the lady holding a handkerchief in her free hand and with a rose-embellished blue scarf over her head, the man with a tricorn hat and green coat over an iron-red waistcoat and breeches, the curls of his long hair carefully delineated in sepia, supported on an openwork plinth with faux bois painting
9 7⁄8 in. (25.1 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 January 1998, lot 60.
With S. Marchant & Son, London.

Specialist note

A very similar figure group from the collection of Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland is preserved in the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (ID no. AE85857). The Copeland Collection group is illustrated by W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection: Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, Salem, 1991, pp. 220-21, cat. no. 106, where the author suggests that these figure groups may have been enjoyed by Chinese audiences as amusing representations of "foreign barbarians".