A PAIR OF GEORGE III PERIOD CHINESE EXPORT FIGURES, The figures: Chinese, Qianlong period, circa 1780
The stands: Chinese, Qianlong period, circa 1800
Female figure:
Height: 28 in; 71 cm
Width: 11 ½ in; 29 cm
Depth: 9 ¾ in; 25 cm
Male figure:
Height: 27 in; 68.5 cm
Width: 11 ½ in; 29 cm
Depth: 9 ½ in; 24 cm
Height: 28 in; 71 cm
Width: 11 ½ in; 29 cm
Depth: 9 ¾ in; 25 cm
Male figure:
Height: 27 in; 68.5 cm
Width: 11 ½ in; 29 cm
Depth: 9 ½ in; 24 cm
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Note: The nodding figures retain most of their painted surface decoration. One of the knurled staffs is of later date. These extraordinary figures are recorded twice in the collection of...
Note: The nodding figures retain most of their painted surface decoration. One of the knurled staffs is of later date.
These extraordinary figures are recorded twice in the collection of Count Liljenkrantz (1730 - 1815), a Swedish finance minister who was also a stockholder of the Swedish East India Company, first in 1788 at Sturehof Castle, Sweden, and again in 1815 at Norsborg, Sweden. Similar Chinese figures can be seen in Johann Zoffany’s 1764 portrait of Queen Charlotte, demonstrating the vogue for Chinese figures at court in England as well as in mainland Europe.
Provenance
Count Johan Liljenkrantz, Stockholm, Sweden.
Ronald Phillips Ltd., London, England.
Private collection, London, England.
