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Lot 67Y
PAIRE DE STATUETTES DE GARÇONS ASSIS EN HUANGHUALI Milieu de la dynastie Qing (1736-1820)
25 – 27 October 2022, 10:30 CEST
Paris, Avenue HocheSold for €19,125 inc. premium
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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).
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).
Footnotes
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入藏
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