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A RARE PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT FIGURES OF PUG DOGS, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1750 | 清乾隆 約1750年 粉彩八哥犬擺件一對
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January 26, 08:38 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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A RARE PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT FIGURES OF PUG DOGS
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1750
清乾隆 約1750年 粉彩八哥犬擺件一對
each modeled seated with head facing forward and clipped ears, the tongue protruding below the snout, the neck tied with a red cord suspending a gold bell, the tail curled around the left hind leg, the body painted all over in sepia strokes to simulate realistic fur
height 9½ in.; 24.1 cm
Auktionsverket, Sweden, November, 2006
Cohen & Cohen, London
The James E. Sowell Collection, Dallas, Texas
Michael Cohen and William Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Surrey, 2008, pp. 168-169, cat. no. 11.8
A pair of examples, made apparently from the same mold and also decorated with brown fur, was sold at Sotheby's London, November 1st, 1989, lot 471. Another pair, in the Conde collection, is illustrated in William R. Sargent, Chinese Porcelain in the Conde Collection, Mexico, 2014, p. 193, fig. 4. Another example also made from the same mold, but decorated en grisaille to simulate a black coat, was in the collection of Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, sold in these rooms, October 19th, 2000 lot 383, and illustrated in David Howard and John Ayers, China for the West, vol. II, pp. 598-599, cat. no. 623. The authors note that although pugs are native to China, it is almost certain that the present examples were modeled after a Meissen prototype by J.J. Kändler after 1734.