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A PAIR OF EXPORT SEATED PUGS

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Each brown, snub-nosed dog has “clipped” ears and is modeled

seated with its tongue sticking out and its fuffy tail curled to one side.

A gilt bell hangs from an iron-red collar around its neck.

9æ in. (24.7 cm.) high (2)

$25,000-40,000

PROVENANCE:

Auktionsverket, Sweden, November 2006.
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. 168.

A pug dog from the Mottahedeh collection, similarly modeled with ‘clipped’
ears, is illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and
New York, 1978, vol. II, pp. 598-600, no. 623, where the authors state
these models of dogs were inspired by Meissen examples by Kändler made
from circa 1734 onwards. Also compare the examples sold Sotheby’s
London, 5 November 2014, lots 309 and 310.

清乾隆 外銷巴哥犬一對

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