TWO CHINESE POLYCHROME FIGURES OF LUOHANS QIANLONG 1736-95 Each depicted seated holding an alms...

TWO CHINESE POLYCHROME FIGURES OF LUOHANS

QIANLONG 1736-95

Each depicted seated holding an alms bowl in one hand upon his raised right knee, wearing gilt-decorated robes, each with a single shoe before him and one with a fly whisk by his side, their laughing faces detailed with wrinkles and teeth, the base of each impressed with a seal mark reading Hu Lian Xing ji, each raised on an ormolu base cast with lappets, 12cm high overall. (2)

Provenance: formerly the collection of William Ward, 4th Earl of Dudley.

Cf. W R Sargent, Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum, pp.456-7, no.253 for a comparable pair.