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AN IMPORTANT AND LARGE FAMILLE ROSE STANDING This very rare large figure, and the figure of her equally rare and
FIGURE OF A EUROPEAN LADY complementary male companion, appear to have been modeled
Qianlong period, circa 1740 after an earlier print by Casper Luyken dating to circa 1703. The print
Brightly enameled and crisply modeled with a pleasant smiling illustrates figures in 17th century Jewish costumes, allegedly worn by
face, wearing a polychrome ruff collar beneath a tight cap with ear ladies of the Frankfurt Jewish Community, and is taken from Abraham
protectors, blue shawl and flowing pink dress under a blue apron, her a Sancta Clara’s Neu Eroffnete Welt-Galleria, published by C. Weigel
hands open by her side, and with bracelets around her wrists, her in Nuremberg in 1703, as part of a series of illustrations of exotic
pointed shoes visible under the hem of her dress. foreign costumes. This print was identified by Ron Fuchs in 2008 in a
16in (42cm) high publication by the Oriental Ceramic Society, London (fig.1).

$80,000 - 120,000 Two female figures very similar to the present lot were formerly in
the magnificent collection of Chinese Export porcelain collection of
乾隆時期 約1740年 重要大件粉彩歐洲仕女立像 the Honorable Mrs. Basil Ionides, housed in her country mansion at
Buxted Park, Sussex. Two male figures forming the other half of this
Published: famous porcelain couple were formerly in the collection of Admiral
Cohen & Cohen, Take Two!, Antwerp, 2017, pp. 128-129, no. 55 Byng and were sold at auction in 1757 after his execution; one was
identified and was formerly in the Hodroff Collection, illustrated by
出版： Howard 1994, no. 299. It is still unclear which European individual or
倫敦Cohen & Cohen，Take Two!, Antwerp, 2017年，頁128-129 圖錄 institution would have wished to commission several pairs of these
編號55 outstanding (and no doubt expensive) figures to be manufactured in
China, and for what purpose. Most scholars had previously believed
that the figures represented Dutch nationals in earlier, old fashioned
costumes, and would therefore most likely have been commissioned
through the Dutch VOC.

Related figures of this lady are in the British Museum (co.
1963,0422.11), illustrated by Mengoni et al 2013, no. 140; in the
Victoria & Albert Museum (co. C.94-1963); and formerly in the
Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by Howard & Ayers 1978, 612;
Cohen & Cohen, 2014, pp. 68-69, no, 38 for a very similar figure with
a few minor color differences; and see Sargent 1991, no. 51, pp. 112-
114 for other examples.
Very few pairs of these couples have survived together: but one
complete pair is to be found in the Peabody Essex Museum, Copeland
Collection, illustrated by Sargent 1991, no. 112; and for the pair
formerly in the Hodroff Collection, see Howard 1994, no. 299, p. 252.

(fig.1)

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