£900
A FINE CHINESE PORCELAIN FAMILLE ROSE STANDING FIGURE OF DONGFANG SHUO
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
holding a fruiting peach branch behind his neck with expressive facial features, open mouth and white enamel incised beard, wearing pink robes painted with prunus flower, tied at the waist with tiger skin skirt, iron red pantaloons on a naturalistic green glaze base and wearing a blue enamel glaze cap.
26.1cm high
Provenance : From an English private collection, Highgate, London.
Sold by Marchant, 17th November 1994.
An identical model with different colourway, gift of Mr C N Ades, is in the V&A Museum, accession number FE.26-1978.
Fine Condition, tiny restoration to leaf and finger.
Fees apply to the hammer price:
Room and Absentee Bids:
30% inc VAT*
Online and Autobids:
33.6% inc VAT*