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A rare pair of famille rose figures of
a ‘Turkish’ boy and girl
18th century
The amusing male figure dressed in baggy yellow
trousers beneath a pink waistcoat tied with a red
belt under a turquoise open surcoat and wearing a
black peaked hat with a long iron-red fold reaching
down the back, the right hand raised at the elbow,
the female figure also smiling with the head tilted
to the left beneath a yellow hood bound with a
flower, the right hand raised and the left clutching
a fur-trimmed robe above a pink dress and blue
underskirt.
The taller 13.5cm (5¼in) high (2).
£8,000 - 10,000
HK$100,000 - 120,000
CNY79,000 - 98,000
十八世紀 西洋人物立像兩件
A pair of male and female figures of this type is
illustrated by D.Howard and J.Ayers, China for
the West, Vol.II, London, 1978, p.619, no.649.
Compare also a similar figure of a girl but wearing a
yellow cap formerly in the Garbisch Collection, sold
at Sotheby’s New York, The Garbisch Collection:
Vol. Three, 22-25 May 1980, lot 266.

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A famille rose figural group of the
‘Laughing Twins’, Hehe Erxian
Jiaqing
Amusingly modelled striding forward together, one
with a leafy stem issuing a lotus pod and bud over
his right shoulder, his left arm wrapped around
his companion holding a basket-weave box, both
figures with cropped hair enamelled in grisaille
above rosy cheeks and laughing broadly.
23cm (9in) high
£4,000 - 6,000
HK$50,000 - 75,000
CNY39,000 - 59,000
清嘉慶 粉彩和合二仙立像

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