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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF PAINTED PEWTER FIGURES OF
EUROPEAN TRIBUTE BEARERS
18th century
Modelled in mirror image, each figure in typical Georgian dress,
kneeling and supporting a faceted baluster vase to one side, set on a
circular base with reticulated decorative borders.
10.5cm (4 1/8in) high. (2).
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十八世紀 錫製彩繪歐洲男侍跪像一對

See a related set of six standing painted pewter figures of westerners,
circa 1780, illustrated by C.L.Crossman, The Decorative Arts of The
China Trade, New York, 1991, colour pl.125. See another pair of
pewter men as candleholders, c.1800, illustrated by D.S.Howard, A
Tale of Three Cities Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong: Three Centuries
of Sino-British Trade in the Decorative Arts, London, 1997, no.259.

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AN UNUSUAL GILT-BRONZE GROUP OF TWO FIGURES
18th century
Possibly depicting figures from an opera or popular novel, cast as a
kneeling young scholar with cap, his right arm touching a standing
taller figure with long flowing robes, the left hand holding a fly-whisk, all
on a rocky base, sealed.
8.8cm (3 1/2in) high.
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十八世紀 銅鎏金二人像

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