Lot 593
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'FOREIGNER' CANDLE STICKS AND A FAMILLE VERTE FIGURE OF A STANDING BOY 19th/20th century
12 – 19 May 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, KnightsbridgeSold for £179.20 inc. premium
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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'FOREIGNER' CANDLE STICKS AND A FAMILLE VERTE FIGURE OF A STANDING BOY
19th/20th century
The candlesticks each modelled in the form of a foreigner in scaly armour with protruding eyes and beard on a rectangular ruyi decorated base, a yellow ingot-shaped drip plate atop his head; the famille verte boy standing upright on a rectangular ruyi base, dressed in a dudou painted with a crane and the collar with stylised ruyi heads, a vase in his hands issuing lotus branches. The tallest 29.6cm (11 5/8in) high. (3).
The candlesticks each modelled in the form of a foreigner in scaly armour with protruding eyes and beard on a rectangular ruyi decorated base, a yellow ingot-shaped drip plate atop his head; the famille verte boy standing upright on a rectangular ruyi base, dressed in a dudou painted with a crane and the collar with stylised ruyi heads, a vase in his hands issuing lotus branches. The tallest 29.6cm (11 5/8in) high. (3).
Footnotes
十九/二十世紀 粉彩繪胡人燭臺一對及五彩童子像