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A PAIR OF EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE HAWK BOXES AND COVERS
CIRCA 1750

Each pink-breasted bird is modeled with its colorful wings
outstretched and its head is turned to one side.
8º in. (20.8 cm.) long

$15,000-25,000

PROVENANCE:

With Cohen & Cohen, 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, p. 272.

This form was likely used as a trinket box, rather than on the dining room
table. For a nearly identical pair see Christie’s New York, 23 January 2012,
lot 445. Also see W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, Salem, 1991, pp.
172-3, no. 80, for a brown-colored pair in The Peabody Museum of Salem.

1750年前後 外銷粉彩鷹式蓋盒一對

633
A PAIR OF EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE IMMORTALS

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The bearded fgure wears a robe decorated with cranes. The other

immortal’s robe is decorated with cloud roundels and he is holding a

basket of fowers in one hand.

9Ω in. (24 cm.) high, the male fgure (2)

$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE:

With Santos, London.
The James E. Sowell Collection, Dallas, Texas.

633 LITERATURE:

30 Michael Cohen and William Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese
and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Reigate, 2008, p. 68.

清乾隆 外銷粉彩仙人立像一對