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10. PAIR OF D E C O R A T I V E G R O U P S
THE PORCELAIN FIGURES, THE ROCKWORK, AND THE LION FINIALS: Chinese (Kangxi), 1662-1722
THE PIERCED SPHERES: Chinese (Qianlong), 1736-95; THE FLOWERS: French (Chantilly Manufactory), circa 1740
THE GILT-BRONZE MOUNTS: French (Paris), circa 1740-45
HEIGHT: i ft. (30.4 cm); WIDTH: 9 in. (22.8 cm); DEPTH: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
78.DI.4.I-.2,
FIG. IOA
DESCRIPTION rests a porcelain sphere with a lid, originally intended as
Each group consists of three assembled porcelain a perfume ball, into which peers the Chinese boy. The
objects: a figure, a pierced and lidded sphere, and a rocky lid of each sphere is surmounted by a lion finial.
outcrop. They have been combined into a picturesque The spheres are enameled with panels of land-
composition of a boy peering into the pierced sphere. The scapes and branches of flowers growing from rockwork
main feature of each consists of an outcrop of pierced in green, black, yellow, brown, and blue, surrounded by
rockwork encrusted with peacocks (fig. zoc) amongst floral cell-patterned borders—all reserved on a pierced
flowering branches that are enameled on the biscuit with white ground. The lions are green, yellow, and brown.
dark aubergine and splashes of yellow and green. On this The standing boys wear yellow trousers and green coats.
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