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A PAIR OF EXPORT FAMILLE VERTE BOYS RIDING QILINS
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The laughing boys are modeled in mirror image seated astride their
mythical beast, each holding a peach in one hand. The qilin dragon
heads are glazed a soft yellow and their lightly-molded scaly coats are
green with iron-red fames.
11 in. (28 cm.) high (2)
$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE:
With Frank Partridge & Sons. Ltd, London.
Collection of Sir Henry Price (1877-1963); Sotheby’s London, 14
November 2000, lot 341.
With Frank Partridge, London.
The James E. Sowell Collection, Dallas, Texas.
LITERATURE:
Michael Cohen and William Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese
and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Reigate, 2008, pp. 88-87.
清康熙 外銷五彩麒麟送子擺件一對
