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656 PROVENANCE:
A PAIR OF LARGE EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE BOYS
With Cohen & Cohen, London.
18TH CENTURY The James E. Sowell Collection, Dallas, Texas.
The laughing boys are modeled in mirror image, standing on LITERATURE:
colorfully enameled pierced bases. Each boy wears a gilt necklace Michael Cohen and William Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese
and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Reigate, 2008, pp. 92-93.
and belt over his foral vest and holds a vase to serve as a candleholder.
清十八世紀 外銷粉彩童子立像一對
Their hair is tied up in bunches with iron-red ribbons.
15 in. (38.2 cm.) high (2)
$40,000-60,000
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