QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795), CIRCA 1785

Details

A LARGE PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN NODDING HEAD LADIES
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795), CIRCA 1785
Each finely enameled, wearing an elaborate headdress and a turquoise robe decorated with clouds and landscape scenes, holding a three-sided ruyi scepter in one hand, all on a hexagonal pierced base
18 in. (45.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty, by August 1994.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

A pair of court ladies of this model, but without the plinth bases and dating to 1740-60, is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, illustrated by C. Clunas, Chinese Export Art and Design, London, 1987, p. 51. A similar pair sold Christie's, New York, 26 January 2006, lot 72.

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