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PAIRE DE STATUETTES DE GARÇONS ASSIS EN HUANGHUALI
Milieu de la dynastie Qing (1736-1820)
A PAIR OF HUANGHUALI FIGURES OF SEATED BOYS
Mid Qing Dynasty (1736-1820)
Each boy, possibly representing the Hehe Erxian, well carved in mirror
image seated with one hand raised and the other resting on a knee
holding aloft an emblem now missing, the head turned to one side
and downwards with a smiling expression below the double-knotted
and well incised hair flowing down the shoulders, wearing long
flowing robes open at the chest to reveal the rotund belly, wearing
shoes protruding below the robes, the underside each raised on an
openwork carved hongmu stands.
28.2cm (11 1/16in) and 27.8cm (10 15/16in) high. (4).
€4,000 - 6,000

Provenance:
Jean-Pierre Rousset, Paris (1936-2021), acquired in the 1980s
Compare with a related pair of wood laughing children, Kangxi,
illustrated in Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilyn
Alsdorf, Chicago, 1970, pl.s34. More often, figures are carved using
bamboo or boxwood. See for example, a bamboo figure of a Daoist
Immortal, Qing dynasty, illustrated in Ming and Qing Chinese Arts
from the C.P.Lin Collection, Hong Kong, 2014, p.317, and a boxwood
scholar, Qing dynasty on p.335.

清中期 黄花梨雕童子坐像一對
來源：
巴黎Jean-Pierre Rousset（1936-2021）舊藏，於二十世紀八十年代
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