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A PAIR OF IRON-RED ENAMELLED SEATED SPANIELS For a very similar pair in the Peabody Essex Museum, Boston, see
Qianlong, circa 1750 W.R.Sargent, The Copeland Collection - Chinese and Japanese
Modelled seated looking to the left and right, their heads raised looking Ceramic Figures, Massachusetts, 1991, no.89, where the author
inquisitively with the mouth open and the ears drooping at the sides, suggests a date of circa 1760; and D.S.Howard, The Choice of the
their hair markings in rich iron-brown with white patches, a green- Private Trader, London, 1994, where several export models of seated
ribbonned gilt simulated bell around each neck. dogs are illustrated, including a pair of grey-haired spaniels, p.275.
Each 17cm (6 3/4in) high. (2). Export models of dogs include seated pugs and seated hounds; for a
pair of the latter, see A.du Boulay, Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese
£6,000 - 8,000 Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, p.295. See also M.Beurdeley, Porcelain of the
CNY53,000 - 70,000 East India Companies, London, 1962, p.172, no.103 for one formerly
in the Resche Collection in Paris. The Chinese called this distinctive
清乾隆，約1750年 礬紅獵犬一對 breed the ‘apple-headed dog’.

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