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A PAIR OF NODDING-HEAD LADIES AS CANDLEHOLDERS Published:
Qianlong period, circa 1745 Cohen & Cohen, A Game of Bowls, Gent, 2014, pp. 58-59, no. 46
Modeled in mirror image with each lady holding a large slender
baluster vase to one side of her body, decorated with blue and white 出版：
lappets at the foot and neck and a single band of unusual pale under- 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《A Game of Bowls》，根特，2014
glaze copper-red between the lappets at the neck, and with the other 年，頁58-59，圖版編號46
arm outstretched across her body to support it, wearing coral-red
robes with gilt black-ground stylized chilong roundels equally spaced Nodding-head porcelain ladies are relatively rarer than similar models
around the figure and breaking waves and rockwork at the hem of with an unarticulated rigid head and must have been even more
the robe, a large, green-glazed kerchief tied at one edge of robe attractive to Western buyers who would have been amused by the
and strung with small cases at waist height, the heads are modeled heads moving, apparently untouched but in fact set in motion by
separately and suspend weights which extend well inside the body to any draught of air. The idea was also used at the Meissen factory in
allow the figures to nod elegantly, both figures standing on a conjoined Germany, where a well-known model of a seated Chinese-style figure
stepped and waisted rectangular stand with low relief floral decoration has the same amusing feature, a head that nods without any visible
above a shaped apron. external pressure.
12in (31cm) high (2).
References: Howard, 1994, p. 258, no. 308, a similar pair with different
$8,000 - 12,000 enamel colors; Howard & Ayers 1978, p. 614, no. 643, another similar
pair which are suggested to have derived from chinoiserie originals;
乾隆時期 約1745年 粉彩描金點頭紅衫仕女燭臺一對 Williamson 1970, pl. LIX, various figures; Sharpe 2002, p.209, a pair of
ladies with lotus candleholders; and Cohen & Cohen 2003, no. 23, a
similar pair.

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