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A PAIR OF PAINTED PLASTER ‘NODDING ‘Nodding head’ figures were popular in the
HEAD’ FIGURES OF AN OFFICIAL AND corridor of the Prince Regent’s Pavilion at
LADY Brighton by 1815. In 1847-8, they were
Qianlong/Jiaqing moved to Buckingham Palace. Similar
Each modelled standing wearing flowing figures can even be seen in Johan Zoffany’s
garments, the face realistically modelled, the painting of Queen Charlotte’s dressing room
man wearing a robe decorated in the centre at Windsor in 1764. See a related figure
with a crane (signifying first-rank civil official), of a standing Mandarin holding a halberd,
the lady wearing a reddish-brown robe 18th/19th century, illustrated by J.Ayers,
decorated with wispy ruyi clouds. The taller Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the
54cm (21 1/4in) high. (4). Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol.3,
London, 2016, p.927, no.2091; see also a
£1,500 - 2,000 related pair of clay figures of a gentleman and
CNY14,000 - 18,000 lady, circa 1750, illustrated by D.S.Howard,
A Tale of Three Cities, Canton, Shanghai and
Please note this Lot is to be sold at Hong Kong: Three Centuries of Sino-British
No Reserve. Trade in the Decorative Arts, London, 1997,
本拍品不設底價 no.188.

清乾隆/嘉慶 彩塑點頭文官仕女擺件一對 304 (reverse)

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A RARE AND LARGE PAINTED ENAMEL
‘EUROPEAN SUBJECT’ DOUBLE-SIDED
SCREEN
Qianlong, the zitan stand and frame, 19th
century
Exquisitely enamelled with an exotic scene
of a European gentleman and lady carrying
a spear and fan respectively, beneath a
large tree and beside a table, looking at a
boy striking a ‘fish-monster’ chime, all within
a mountainous landscape with European-
style buildings in the distance, the reverse
with bamboo and a gnarled branch issuing
pomegranates and blossoms, three birds
perched on the branch, another in flight,
further painted with a poetic inscription and
two seals, all within a zitan frame and stand.
Overall 62.6cm (24 5/8in) high. (2).
£20,000 - 30,000
CNY180,000 - 270,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯歐洲題材硯屏 配十九世
紀紫檀座框

The inscription on the screen reads: ‘高冠頻
咲語紅霓朶掛枝’, which may be translated
as: ‘The high and noble chattering and talking
of the reflected rainbow, beneath flowers
hanging from the branch’.

During the Qianlong period, the southern port
of Guangzhou was the main trade entrepot
between Europe and China. Influenced by
European painted enamels and oil paintings,
local Cantonese craftsmen began producing
a large number of painted enamel wares
depicting foreign flowers, architecture and
Western figures to be sent as tribute to the
Imperial Court in Beijing; see Tributes from
Guangdong to the Qing Court, Hong Kong,
1987, pp.54 and 88. See also related painted
enamel panels with European figures, 18th
century, illustrated by M.Gillingham, Chinese
Painted Enamel, Oxford, 1978, p.19. 304

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