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A DEHUA 'EUROPEAN FAMILY' GROUP
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
This unusual group comprises a European couple with goblets in hand seated
at a table with a bowl of bread and a cross. Their son and daughter stand by
their sides and their pet dog and monkey are modelled in the foreground by a
jardinière. The man and his son wear tricorn hats and frock coats while the wife
and daughter wear loose robes and skirts with cowls covering their heads. The
group is supported on a rockwork base.
6√ in. (17 cm.) high
£5,000-7,000 US$6,400-8,900
€5,500-7,600
PROVENANCE:
Private English Collection.
Although these were traditionally referred to as 'Governor Duff' groups,
probably after Diederick Duiver, the Dutch Governor of the East India
Company from 1729-1731, there is little evidence to support this. Records
show that these groups were imported into Europe around 1702 and referred
to as 'Dutch families' on cargo sale lists of the English East India Company,
published by Geoffrey A. Godden in Oriental Export Market Porcelainand Its
Influence on European Wares, London, 1979, no.266. Other similar groups are
illustrated by D. S. Howard in The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994,
pp. 248-9, no. 294; by Rose Kerr and John Ayers in Blanc de Chine, Porcelain
from Dehua, Chicago, 2002, no. 39; and by John Ayers in Blanc de Chine,
Divine Images in Porcelain, New York, 2002, no. 58, p. 107. A similar group is
in The British Museum, London, collection number 1930.7-28.566.

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清康熙 德化白釉歐洲宫廷人物擺件
來源:
英國私人舊藏

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A SMALL INSCRIBED 'ROCKS' YIXING TEAPOT
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The delicately potted vessel is decorated to one side with an abstract
illustration of large craggy rocks, beside a signature 'Shan Nong ke' (carved
by Shan Nong). The reverse has an inscription suggesting that the illustration
imitates the work of the Ming painter Shen Zhou (1427-1509). The base has a
square seal mark with the pseudonym 'Shu Chao', raised on three short
round feet.
4º in. (10.8 cm.) wide across handle and spout
£3,000-5,000 US$3,900-6,500
€3,300-5,400

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