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A ‘DEHUA’ SEATED FIGURE OF A LARGE PAIR OF ‘DEHUA’ FIGURES
WENCHANG OF LADIES
LATE MING DYNASTY 17TH / 18TH CENTURY
Height 10 in., 25.5 cm each with a gilt-metal collar mount (2)
Height 31¾ in., 80.7 cm
PROVENANCE
Pao & Moltke, Toronto (according to label). PROVENANCE
Mid-Western Private Collection.
⊖ $ 5,000-8,000 Sotheby’s New York, 22th October 2010, lot 54.
In the late 17th century, figures of imposing,
明末 德化白釉文昌帝君坐像 elegant, white-glazed, porcelain ladies,
exemplified by the present examples, were one
of the most desirable Chinese luxury items
來源 amongst the European elite. Prominently
Pao & Moltke，多倫多 (標籤) displayed on brackets and pedestals in bespoke
Chinese-themed rooms, with their graceful
stance, luxurious attire, and gentle demeanors,
Dehua sculptures of dignified ladies embodied
the allure of the East that had collectively
captured European cultural imagination.
414 Similar figures may be found in numerous
royal European palaces including Drottingholm
near Stockholm, the collection of Augustus the
Strong in Dresden, Sans Souci in Potsdam, and
Charlottenburg in Berlin. The earliest record
of similar Dehua models of ladies in Europe is
the 1716 inventory of the collection of Queen
Charlotte Amelie (1650-1714) at Rosenborg
Castle in Denmark. A pair of nearly identical
figures and three related figures, each of a
woman holding a child in one arm, are in the
Royal Collection, London and illustrated in John
Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in
the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. 1,
London, 2016, cat. nos 37-42.
$ 30,000-50,000
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十七 / 十八世紀 德化白釉仕女
A ‘DEHUA’ FIGURE OF AN IMMORTAL
17TH CENTURY 立像一對
Height 14⅛ in., 35.8 cm
來源
美國中西部私人收藏
PROVENANCE
Canadian Private Collection. 紐約蘇富比2010年10月22日，編號54

⊖ $ 5,000-8,000
十七世紀 德化白釉仙人立像

來源
加拿大私人收藏

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