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10. PAIR OF DECORATIVE GROUPS
THE PORCELAIN FIGURES, THE ROCKWORK, AND THE LION FINIALS: Chinese (Kangxi), 1662-1722
THE PIERCED SPHERES: Chinese (Qianlong), 1736-95; THEFLOWERS: French (Chantilly Manufactory), circa 1740
THE GILT-BRONZE MOUNTS: French (Paris), circa 1740-45
HEIGHT: i ft. (30.4 cm); WIDTH: 9 in. (22.8 cm); DEPTH: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
78.DI.4.I-.2,
FIG. IOA
DESCRIPTION rests a porcelain sphere with a lid, originally intended as
Each group consists of three assembled porcelain a perfume ball, into which peers the Chinese boy. The
objects: a figure, a pierced and lidded sphere, and a rocky lid of each sphere is surmounted by a lion finial.
outcrop. They have been combined into a picturesque
composition of a boy peering into the pierced sphere. The The spheres are enameled with panels of land-
main feature of each consists of an outcrop of pierced scapes and branches of flowers growing from rockwork
rockwork encrusted with peacocks (fig. zoc) amongst in green, black, yellow, brown, and blue, surrounded by
flowering branches that are enameled on the biscuit with floral cell-patterned borders—all reserved on a pierced
dark aubergine and splashes of yellow and green. On this white ground. The lions are green, yellow, and brown.
The standing boys wear yellow trousers and green coats.
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