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TWO PAINTED STUCCO ‘APSARA’ FIGURES, MING DYNASTY, each depicted in a fluid aerial position with their
extended limbs trailing the flowing garments, with carefully coiffed and secured hair, painted in polychrome pigments, modern stands (4)

ᬻ −ൾᒖ㎗丈๖׼ږᄷ
Heights 10½ in., 26.7 cm
$ 20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE ҳ⎽
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York. Ralph M Chait Galleries喑㈽㈱
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Collection of Mrs. Anna Isley Kneeland (1869-1955), Anna Isley Kneeland ๘ϧ 1869 1955 ᩣ㫼喑䈩᫩
acquired between 1920 and 1940. 1920㜠1940Ꭱ͸䫀
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Sotheby’s New York, 1 June 1994, lot 394. ㈽㈱㬴ჹ℁1994Ꭱ6ᰵ1ᬒ喑㌕㮌394
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York. Ralph M Chait Galleries喑㈽㈱
EXHIBITED ᆂ㻪
Tenth Loan Exhibition of Chinese Art, Detroit Institute ȨTenth Loan Exhibition of Chinese Artȩ喑Ꮒ➦ᒸ
of Arts, 1929. 㒻㶀乕喑1929Ꭱ

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A LARGE SANCAI-GLAZED FIGURE OF A LION, MING DYNASTY, the beast modeled crouching low on all fours
with its head turned back over the right haunch, the jaws open in a growl, the body covered in a green glaze with a deep brown stripe
down the spine, the tufts of fur amber-glazed, the claws and teeth glazed white, raised on a low conforming base with an oval opening to
the underside for firing

ᬻ ̶ᒖ㜒⡲
Width 26 in., 66 cm
$ 4,000-6,000

80 SOTHEBY’S