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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN PROVENANCE Parke Bernet 1970 5 22 101
C Ruxton Audrey B Love 310
A RARE PAIR OF GILT-LACQUERED Property of an English Private Collector.
IRON FIGURES OF FEMALE Sotheby Parke Bernet, 22nd May 1970, lot 101. 2004 10 20
ATTENDANTS Collection of C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love.
JIAJING PERIOD, DATED THIRTY Christie’s New York, 20th October 2004, lot 310.
SIXTH YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO
1558 Compare a pair of cast-iron gures of luohan,
dated by inscription to the 16th year of the
each gure cast standing atop a rectangular Chenghua period (1480), sold in our London
openwork base, with hands clasped within the rooms, 7th November 2007, lot 261; and a large
long voluminous sleeves of the layered robes pair of cast-iron gures of Yan Wang, dated to the
to support an o ering, the hair swept back and 12th year of the Zhengde period (1517), sold at
drawn into two topknots, one cast on the reverse Christie’s London, 4th December 1995, lot 182.
of the skirt with a fteen-character inscription
reading Xiaochengli shan ren Cao Chenghuai $ 30,000-50,000
Jiajing san shi liu nian zao (Made by the charitable
Cao Cheng Huai of Xiaochengli in the thirty sixth
year of the Jiajing reign), together with a list of
donor names, traces of lacquer and gilding (2)
Height 22⅛ in., 56.2 cm
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